[Magdalen] Erdbeerkuchen mit Schlagzahn.

[Ann Markle]

Yum. I wants me some strawberry shortcake! You reminded me of my
childhood,when my mother and I picked flats and flats of "pick your own"
strawberries each June. The reward for all the work was getting to eat all
I wanted as I picked. We didn't can or freeze jam, but my mother would cut,
sugar, and freeze, and I learned as an adult that whole berries can be
capped, washed, and frozen in baggies.

On Saturday, June 13, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> "Tis the season for strawberry shortcake with whipped cream.
>
> I haven't the energy to go over to the nearby Conyngham Valley to pick  my
> own local strawberries, so I settled on grocery-store strawberries  from
> California.  California berries have gotten much better in recent  years
> (they used to be positively tasteless) but they are not quite up to  the
> smaller, tastier berries locally grown.
>
> I also purchased the shortcake and the whipped cream  (My mother  is
> rolling over in her grave), but all in all, the final product was pretty
> nice.
>
> There was a pick-your-own strawberry bed a couple of miles from our
> summer cabin (the one that was razed and replaced by an humongous
> new home), and they had both "June berries" and "Everbearing"
> strawberries that produced good strawberries until Labor Day.  As  a
> result we ate strawberry shortcake maybe five days a week all summer
> at the lake (Wisconsin).
>
> When I lived in Germany 1966-1970, we soon discovered the Germans
> love their strawberry short cake with copious whipped cream, too.
> My younger brother and next older brother came over in 1966, and I
> spent two weeks with them.  Each evening, we sampled the local
> variety of erdbeerkuchen mit Schlagzahn.  They seemed to have  much
> fun with the German, "Schlagzahn" word, as they also did with the
> ubiquitous "Ausfahrt" word on signs on the autobahns.
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>


-- 
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
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