A SCRUMPTIOUS DESSERT BY THE WORLD’S WORST COOK
(Yuna Boodle)
My husband, Fenny Boodle, never disagrees when I tell folks I’m the world’s worst cook. After all, he's been eating my culinary offerings for forty-five years.
Fenny brags he can rustle up the most exotic cuisines--IF--we find an exotic restaurant and he has his credit card in his wallet. I much prefer Fenny’s cooking to mine.
My problem: When I lack what a recipe calls for, I’ll dump in whatever’s on hand that sounds interesting. Occasionally, such as in this recipe, my ‘dumping’ system works.
Yuna Boodle’s fresh fruit shortcakes
Lightly grease a muffin tin. (12 muffins size)
In mixing bowl stir together:
2 ½ cups Bisquik
½ cup milk (soy milk if you feel brave)
3 tablespoons oil (I use canola or olive)
4 packets artificial sugar ( because Fenny’s calorie-watching)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix all ingredients together until you see occasional pea-sized dry lumps in the batter.
Pick up golf-ball-size amounts of dough, kneed three or four times and mold each with your palms into a flying saucer shape about 2/3 inch thick.
Place two flying-saucer dough pieces side-by-side ON EDGE in each muffin tin slot.
Bake at 400 degrees until golden, about twenty minutes.
Remove from oven and immediately spread with melted butter. (I butter with a piece of paper towel, but if you’re a fancier cook than I, use a nice pastry brush.)
Split each shortcake open on dessert plates, top with fresh fruit, sweetened if necessary.
I use blackberries or Oregon marion berries from our backyard plot, a gift from God. When I bought this house, I had no idea I was purchasing a small berry plot, too.
Now, my freezer’s full of berries waiting for me to impress guests with my cooking skills. Tee hee.
I ‘nuke the frozen berries lightly to thaw, but don’t cook them. That fresh, 'as if just picked' taste teases palates and guests tell me I’ve fed them a heavenly flavor.
Serve with ice cream. I hand my guests the ice cream package from the freezer and the scoop, to dish out what they want. My guests love deciding their own serving size.
Enjoy and God bless you with cooking success.