The best was the warm strawberry-rhubarb cobbler with buttery biscuit-style pastry, crowned with vanilla gelato.
Today, both are considered shortcake, though technically a shortcake is a sweet biscuit-style cake made with a lot of shortening (hence the name) or butter.
But in "Diner Desserts" (Chronicle Books, $18.95), Tish Boyle begs to differ, saying her biscuit-style strawberry shortcake is the true diner classic.
Christy's Donuts, Kolaches and Croissants in the Montrose neighborhood here serves square biscuit-style kolaches, cut open along the side, stuffed with sausage patties, layered with cheese and microwaved.
The year 2013 has been no different: where once you might have written a resolution on the first page of your diary to eat fewer biscuits, Bridget Jones style, now new year's weight loss rhetoric has been amped up into the domain of thinktank press releases trying to prove they have something useful to contribute to the pressing problem of obesity.
A standard biscuit (baking powder/buttermilk style) dough recipe can be used for this, instead of baking mix.
To be fair, they are also sporting a couple of packets of biscuits each, which also makes them look bigger, but for some reason Vogue refuses to endorse biscuits as a style statement, even in January when they are clearly the literal meaning of To Die For Must-Haves, even more so than a toggled Aztec cape or whatevs, so I am writing about peplums by default.
In addition to Little Fish, opening in the fall, two eateries are already open in Producers Hall: Honest Biscuits, selling Southern-style biscuit sandwiches made with Northwest-milled flour, and Old Stove Brewing Company, a spacious brewhouse and pub.
She explained, "If the Automat menu said strawberry shortcake, you got a home-style biscuit baked that day, fresh strawberries and real whipped cream".
The cooks at school always tried their best to spare our feelings by adapting certain dishes to our "Islamic requirements" - another sister was given a Parkin-style biscuit in the shape of a dog instead of a pig to avoid offence.
