Mid-Summer Strawberry Bannock Shortcake

This weekend brings alongside it a heap of celebrations for thus many dissimilar cultures as well as reasons. From National Aboriginal Day, Summer Solstice as well as Mid-summer Celebrations to Father's Day; it's the longest twenty-four hours of the yr inwards these parts as well as a kicking off to the source twenty-four hours of summer. H5N1 adept argue to hold upward alongside friends as well as household unit of measurement as well as suspension some bread! We constitute this recipe inwards the July consequence of Canadian Living this week, as well as adapted it a chip to produce a delicious brunch-style dessert.  H5N1 twist on the regular strawberry shortcake, the bannock (a traditional Canadian aboriginal bread) is sweetened alongside a petty chip of vanilla as well as sugar. Best eaten when the bannock is fresh.




Strawberry Bannock Shortcake
(Adapted from Canadian Living - July/15)

For the Bannock—
ii cups flour
ii tbsp sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ loving cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
½ loving cup water
vegetable fossil oil for frying

For the Strawberries—
iii - 4 cups of strawberries (hulled as well as quartered)
1 tbsp sugar
1 loving cup of whipping cream (with 1 tbsp saccharide as well as 1 tbsp vanilla)

Method—
Mix the strawberries alongside the saccharide as well as laid aside.  For the bannock, add together all the dry out ingredients together as well as mix well. Create a good as well as add together the milk, vanilla as well as water.  Mix together only until soft as well as slightly mucilaginous dough forms. Add to a greater extent than flour if necessary, 1 tbsp at a fourth dimension to hit desired consistency.  Gather into a ball as well as house on a lightly floured surface.  Roll out to most a ¼ inch thick as well as and thus cutting into circular shapes using either a large cookie cutter, chapeau or cup.  Heat upward the fossil oil inwards a cast Fe skillet, gently house the dough rounds (3 or 4 at a time) into the oil, turning i time until puffed as well as golden, as well as thus plough them over to gear upward the other side. Bannock is cooked when tip of knife inserted inwards centres comes produce clean (about half dozen minutes). Remove biscuits alongside a slotted spoon as well as house onto newspaper towels to drain.  Let cool.

Whip upward the cream, adding the saccharide as well as vanilla at as well as thus end.  To build, halve each biscuit as well as alternate whipping cream, strawberries, followed past times some other bannock biscuit, to desired height. We used 2½ halves. Top alongside to a greater extent than whipping cream as well as strawberries. Yum! Happy summertime celebrations!