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The Last of My Retro Cake Reenactments
Icebox strawberry shortcake for the win
Ever since I wrote this article reminiscing about five of my favorite cakes from the 1970s, I’ve been craving strawberry shortcake. That was the last cake on the list. The only one I hadn’t made yet.
Until today.
What could possibly be better than strawberries? And cream. And cake.
Strawberries are summer’s sweetest gift. When we were kids, when we weren’t harvesting wild strawberries from the deep grassy ditches of our country road, we were out in the pick-your-own strawberry fields picking, eating, picking more, eating more, and, eventually, buying what we didn’t eat under the gentle Southern Ontario sun.
The fields and orchards near our small farm 26 miles outside of Toronto produced a rainbow of fruit. Strawberries were first, in late May and June, followed by peaches, pears, plums, and cherries. And finally, apples, which thrived on their trees even after the first snows of winter.
