Shortcake

[singing]

Biscuits, Breakfast Cakes, and Shortcakes by Fannie Farmer.

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Dilute cream for cream sauce with fruit syrup in place of milk.

Any shortcake mixture may be made for individual service by shaping with a large biscuit cutter, or mixture may be baked in a shallow cake pan, center removed, and filled with fruit, and pieces baked separately to introduce to represent handles.

End of Breakfast Cakes, Biscuits, and Shortcakes by Fannie Farmer.

Read by Betty B.

Oh, another one.

I guess I could say my Ted Drew's favorite is Strawberry Shortcake.

Oh, I thought it was Tiramisu.

It used to be.

It became Strawberry Shortcake, and I love that.

I think I love that more.

Huh.

Uh, correct.

Um, but yeah, I would say probably my Strawberry Shortcake dolls.

I can...

Just by you saying that, I can smell Strawberry Shortcake.

Mm-hmm.

I loved those so much.

Uh, blueberry muffin, Strawberry Shortcake, peach, what was the...

What are their names? Do you remember?

to come back.

I mean, my God, look at Strawberry Shortcake.

Look at it.

Yeah.

Makes four dozen small donuts.

Individual Strawberry Shortcakes.

Three cups sifted swans down cake flour, three teaspoons Calumet baking powder, one teaspoon salt, one-half cup butter or other shortening, three-quarter cup milk, two quarts strawberries washed and hulled.

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again.

So Freedman and/or Playmates reached out to animation company Murakami Wolf Swenson in 1987.

We last saw them on this podcast kicking off the animated toy line boom with their work on the Strawberry Shortcake specials.

Yep.

Yep.

He's always doing this kind of shit.

White man privilege.

Returning to Bebop and Rocksteady, they're introduced to the ship's owner, Shreeka, voiced by Joan Gerber, who speaking of just misses, we just missed her role of Mrs. Beakley when we covered DuckTales, though we did encounter her as Blueberry Muffin for the Strawberry Shortcake specials.

Beakley also isn't her first maid character, since before that she was Irona on Hanna-Barbera's Richie Rich, as well as Mrs.

... was a thing, and I was never allowed to be, like, Daisy Duke.

I was never allowed to be Strawberry Shortcake.

I wasn't...

And you know, I was a big He-Man fan.

Yeah.

And I, I, I didn't unders- I didn't understand that, and that had to be, like, explained to me.

Um, like, I loved St- I loved Strawberry Shortcake.

I loved Strawberry Shortcake back then like I love Harry Potter today.

other than a strawberry

other than a strawberry um is strawberry shortcake I'm just kidding.

No, Strawberry Shortcake was on my list potentially, but I was kind of like, I almost feel like they're too striking to be Strawberry Shortcake.

Well, Strawberry Shortcake, for those that don't know, it is a dessert, but it's also like a little animated character.

yeah i don't know if she had a show

or if she was