Southern Style Fruit Shortcake Recipe chatNchow

• 2 cups flour sifted
• 1/4 cup sugar plus more for dusting tops
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 10 tablespoons butter chilled and cubed
• 2/3 cup + 2 tablespoons buttermilk ice cold
• Zest of one orange
• 1/2 tablespoon freshly grated ginger

1. Preheat ovento 375 Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
2. Add butter and blend with a fork or pastry blender until mixture resembles course meal slowly stir in butter milk orange zest and ginger while mixing with a fork and forms large clumps Gather dough into a large ball and roll out to 3/4" on a board well dusted with flour Cut into 2-3" rounds (I use a glass as my cutter) and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchement Sprinkle tops with sugar Bake for about 20 minutes and cool on a rack
3. Fruit I had a combination of fresh peaches, strawberries and mango on hand so thats what I used
4. PeachesI boiled 5 peaches for 1 minute and allowed to cool.
5. Then I took the skin right off and cut into pieces.
6. My peaches were so juice I did not have to add any sugar.
7. MangoI cut 2 mangoes into small pieces and drizzles with agave nectar since they were a little tart StrawberriesI cut up 1 large container of strawberries and topped with 1 tablespoon of confectioners sugar, stirred and let sit for a few hours before serving.
8. The strawberries make their own juice
9. Whipped creamlet a bowl sit in the freezer with a container of whipping cream for 3040 minutes.
10. Whip cream with a mixer or a whisk.
11. Mix in 1/21 teaspoon high quality vanilla and 1 tablespoon confectioner sugar.
12. Biscuits can be either topped with fruit and cream or split and topped with fruit and cream...
13. enjoy!
14. !

flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, orange, freshly grated ginger

Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/southern-style-fruit-shortcake-28544 (may not work)