Here's a simple recipe for (1) preparing a quart of strawberries for shortcake, and (2) making shortcake biscuits using Bisquick:

Strawberries

June (into early July) strawberries in New England are smaller (compared with California berries) and sweeter. This batch seemed to be about 50% larger than usual for our local berries. As a sign that they did not have to travel far, every berry was perfect.

20220701-1448

Ingredients:

• 1 qt. strawberries
• 1/3 c. suger

Steps:

1. Remove stems and green "hats".
2. Cut the berries in halves or quarters (small ones in half, large ones in quarters).
3. Add sugar and mix into the berries.
4. Stir occasionally.
5. The longer you wait, the more juice you will have.

20220617-1844 It may take a while, but the sugar will bring out the juice.

Shortcake

Ingredients:

• 2 1/3 c. Bisquick
• 1/2 c. milk
• 3 T. sugar
• 3 T. melted butter

Steps:

1. Mix the four ingredients above in one bowl. It will look rather thick, like cookie batter. Like this: 20220702-0823
2. With a large spoon, drop batter onto a cookie sheet so as to make 8 biscuits.
3. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 425F.
4. Slide biscuits off of the cookie sheet and onto a cooling rack.

20220702-0838 20220618-1134 The finished product!