New Cookbooks and Strawberry Shortcake.

Looit what my sister gave me! She read on my blog about how I don't have any cook books but that it was alright because I had the internet. So she had these ready for me when I came to visit her! I love it!

We grew up using this Good House Keeping repice book. My mom had a copy. My dad also has his own copy that belonged to his mother. Which to me makes it even cooler. I never got to meet my grandmothers so I always longed for one. Anyways, my sister found hers at the used book store and later found one for me as well! I am so stoked to have it.

We went to Costco the other day and we bought a huge basket of strawberries to share with Aleks mom but she only took about a quarter of them. I knew I could not eat enough strawberries and cottage cheese, or just eat all the strawberries before they went wilted so I thought I wanted strawberry shortcake since at the end of the week I will be starting a biggest loser competition and will not be eating yummy yummy goodnesses like this.

Then, I remembered my cookbook and all the times as a teenager I made strawberry shortcake from this recipe book! I was so excited!

As I read the recipe, getting my ingredients together I did not remember useing lemon zest in my recipe when I was younger. But I figured it was something I probably would have left out anyway. Now that I am grown up and have a more developed palate I decided to use some lime zest seeing as I had a lime and had used half of it in my Thai tacos I had made earlier that day.

This is really an easy recipe. Just take your two cups of flour and mix in the baing powder, salt, sugar and zest. Then cut in the butter till it is lumpy.

Add an egg.

 And milk.

Till it just holds together.

Then press into an oiled baking pan or pie dish and bake for 35-40 minutes at 425 degrees.

While its baing cut up the strawberries.

Add a tablespoon or two of brown sugar.

 Chill in the fridge till ready to eat.

After the shortcake has cooled then slice a piece in half and layer with strawberries and whipping cream. I was lazy and did not whip my cream.

But if you want that texture then get your hand mixer out and whip the cream with a little vanilla till peaks form. Some people like the cream to be sweet but I personally think that the strawberries are sweet enough that it doesn't need more sugar. But if you want it sweet then add a little powdered sugar since we want it to be a smooth creamy texture. Well I hope you enjoy!