Help with shortcakes for strawberry shortcakes that spread too much

This may be a tiny bit late, but I love biscuit shortcakes, and found a really old recipe on how to make them, you make your biscuits (2 c flour, 4 tsp baking powder (slightly rounded) 1/2 tsp salt, 3-6 ounces of butter or to your taste the more butter the flakier the biscuit, and 7/8 cup of water (not milk or buttermilk) (7/8 cup is a full cup with 2 T removed) mix the biscuits after sifting the dry ingredients together (you can add a bit of sugar up to you, but not more than 1/4 cup) add the water, don't overmix, and then roll out and cut out the biscuits with a 3 or 4 inch cutter, place half the dozen cut biscuits on the baking sheet, butter the tops, and place the other half on top of those, bake in a 450F oven for 20 minutes and cool. the butter makes the top biscuit come off neatly and the shortcake is ready for the filling!

By the way these work well in a BBQ but cut the time to about half as the grill with the tip acts like a convection oven and cooks faster. But its sure cooler in the middle of summer to bake them outside.

EvaB in Home Cooking