Evening star., 1928-06-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES +. TRACEWELL.

something in this fruit that disagrees
with many, especially when combined
| with dough. Yet the heroic soul who
can resist the stomachatic urge 10 par
take of real shortcake is not yet born.
There Is something about the real
thing that beckons, to a man, with out
stretched arms. Those who know and
love the true shortcake will admit that
1t Is heavy dish. They will be willing
! to add that no doubt 1t must be eaten
with discretion.
That it ever should have been re-
garded as simple dessert. to come at
the end OF full meal, they know today
to have been a dietetic crime II they did
not know 1t then. It's basic dough is too
solid. its berries too sweet, It's cream and
sprinkling of sugar too rich. TO admit
OF being anything but complete meal
in itself.
The sort OF strawberry shortcake we
praise here~-and there Is no other kA1d,
for the other sort should be labeled
"sweetcake" by law--contains enough
calories to enable a man to work IL
hours at hard labor
We would thank no hostess for any,
thing less than large bowl fun The
bowl Is necessary in order to drip the
cream down over the edges OF the slab
in order to thoroughly moisten it.
Getting the shortcake completely wet
with cream is the secret of eating u.
Just as using short dough is the
secret Of making it. Dry shortcaSe,
even If moistencd with berry juice, is
not so good.
There must be cream and plenty Of
it. to bring out the true lusciousness OF
true strawberry shortcake. that divine
dish known and beloved by the gods on
Mount Olympus. (The Greeks called
1t "ambrosia." but we think straw
berry shortcake" much better namcl
Many men who know better submit
to the sweetcake without a murmur of
protest They ought to band together
and rise in arms against having such
sickly. sweetish stuff thrust down their
throats.
Why, some housewives even 60 to the
extent Of going 10 the corner grocery
| 10 purchase certain prepared slices OF
sweetcake dough, which, after getting
them home, they feloniously cram with
berries and have the affrontery to call
strawberry shortcake."
Such a thing is not and never will
be strawberry shortcake. II takes
more than strawberries to make short =
cake, Just ss it takes more than pink
lemonade TO make a circus.
Ladies' do not fool your husbands
with fake strawberry shortcake. Serve
them sweetcake II you will. or must,
but do not in the name of good grub.
call ii shortcake.
We have tasted some Of these irnita =
tions which were not bad at all Espe-
cially when the berries were not fit Tor
public consumption-then the sugar in
the dough did yeoman service In COW
ering up the shortcomings Of the short
cake.
Long ago we gave up expecting TO
find real shortcake in restaurant Evi :
IDENTIFY the public taste Is supposed to
have veered around from short" TO
sweet" In this we think restauranters
have made mistake.
The taste for real strawberry short
cake still remains at the bottom Of
mems characters. along with respec.
for authority and veneration for the
church. It Is ineradicable.
Men like close base bail game.
watermelon and authentic strawberry
shortcake II is dificult to monkey
with a base ball game or a watermelon.
but there are no rules or rind to save
the shortcake. alas.