Strawberry shortcake ancestor

Sometimes I wonder why we cook and I think we are just children playing with our food.   I also think we have a need to be creative and it seems to me that the industry understands that all too well. They exploit it and encourage people to make recipes with their processed product(s).  I prefer using ingredients. 

When I went to the farm to buy strawberries there was a angel cake evidently in display. Instead I made one of my mom's every day desserts when I was growing up, and I suspect it is the ancestor of the strawberry shortcake.  It is almost too simple to talk about it but too good to not to.

 

Strawberry Shortcake Ancestor 

Ingredients 

1                                                                 Slice of bread 

1 cup                                                         Strawbwrries, sliced

1 tablespoon                                            Cream *

1 teaspoon                                               Sugar or sweetener of choice

1/8 cup                                                      Dark chocolate chips (optional)

Directions 

Torn the slice of bread, put it in a bowl, top with the berries then the sweetener and cream.

* heavy cow cream or coconut, half and half or milk of choice.

My mom would use bread, cream and sugar, syrup or molasses, berries or other fruits when having. 

When they say not to eat process food it doesn't have to be complicated. 

By the way strawberries and maple syrup on peanut butter toast is healthier and tastier than jelly don't you think? So go ahead play with your food, be creative, do it with nature's abundant supplies.  Cook à la you, eat healthy and be well!