[Magdalen] Erdbeerkuchen mit Schlagzahn.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

David S> 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.


California berries are GMO now... for flavor and longer shelf life... : (

Lynn

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From: "Ann Markle" <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:16 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Erdbeerkuchen mit Schlagzahn.

> 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
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
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