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A Strawberry shortcake can take on many forms, it can be a scone-like cake, a sponge or a thin biscuit but two things remain the same throughout any recipe: fresh strawberries and lots of pretty whipped cream. Strawberries were first cultivated by the Romans in 200 BC but what about the origin of a Strawberry Shortcake?<\/p>\n

In Medieval times newly-weds would be presented with a soup made of strawberries and sour cream topped with borage and sugar. They believed strawberries to be an aphrodisiac, yet no biscuit or cake of any kind accompanied the dish.
\nShort meaning crumbly from the Old English ‘cruma’ is a term that came to be in the 15th century, adding a large amount of fat or ‘shortening’ to flour results in a crumbly or ‘short’ texture.<\/p>\n

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In the Elizabethan cookbook The good Huswifes Handmaide \u2028for the Kitchin.<\/i> (1594 -1597) one can find the earliest record of the term ‘short cake’. Unfortunately none of the manuscripts that survived of this book are complete.
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\nTake wheate flower, of the fayrest ye can get, and put it in an earthern pot, and stop it close, and set it in an Ouen and bake it, and when it is baken, it will be full of clods, and therefore ye must searse it through a search: the flower will haue as long baking as a pastie of Uenison. When you haue done this, take clowted Creame, or els sweet Butter, but Creame is better, then take Sugar, Cloues, Mace, and Saffron, and the yolke of an Egge for one doozen of Cakes one yolke is ynough: then put all these foresaid things together into the cream, & temper them al together, then put them to your flower and so make your Cakes, your paste wil be very short, therefore yee must make your Cakes very litle: when yee bake your cakes, yee must bake them vpon papers, after the drawing of a batch of bread.<\/i><\/p>\n

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A mention of a shortcake appears in one of Shakespeare’s plays ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ in 1602:
\n“Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas?”<\/i>
\nAfter some research into these words and the help of some people who studied Shakespeare I found out that Alice was possibly the Countess of Derby who lived at that time and would have dispensed lard cakes referred to as short cakes to the poor. It is very possible that Shakespeare used Alice Shortcake as a nickname for Alice spencer the Countess of Derby but of course we are not entirely sure to say it is a fact.<\/p>\n

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\nfact is that the British have been enjoying Strawberry short cakes with
\ngreat pleasure for as long as anyone can remember and everyone seems to
\nhave his or her own version of the dish. So here I shall bring you
\nmine, a ‘short’ thin wholemeal spelt biscuit that really lets the
\nstrawberries and cream be the queen of the pudding.
\nThis dish brings a bit of sunshine to your table, and dear oh dear do we need some sunshine is this dullest and coldest of springs.<\/p>\n

I’m getting ready to travel to London for Food Blogger Connect<\/a>, a conference where I will be one of the speakers <\/a>this year. To those I will meet there, see you soon and to all the other lovely people, next time there will be yet another book from a friend<\/a> on the blog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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