Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, scones. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Scones is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Scones is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding a generous teaspoon of finely grated orange rind (zest) to the dry ingredients and substituting dried cranberries for the raisins. These scones are fantastic, and they're so easy to make. I've made them twice in the last twenty four hours, and got rave reviews each time.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook scones using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Scones:
- Get 3 cups all purpose flour
- Take 3/4 cup sugar
- Make ready 4 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cold and cubed
- Make ready 4 oz (1/2 package) cream cheese, cold and cubed
- Take 2 eggs
- Get Milk enough to pull dough together
Don't try to double this recipe. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. English scones are not glazed or frosted, and they are generally spilt open and spread with butter, but sometimes also with clotted cream and jam (yes please!). Our scones tend to be richer and more cake-like, usually made with egg and with heavy cream or buttermilk.
Steps to make Scones:
- Place all the dry ingredients in either a food processor or large bowl. Pulse or stir just to combine.
- Make sure the butter and cream cheese are COLD, cube them up and cut into dry ingredients. If you are using a food processor pulse half the butter and cream cheese at a time to prevent overworking the dough and/or clumping. If cutting in by hand you have a little more control and better looking toned up arms :)
- Next whisk the eggs and add to the flour mixture. Mix until worked throughout the dough.
- The dough is still dry and crumbly at this stage, but can quickly become an over-saturated, sticky mess with this next ingredient. It's time to add more dairy. I use nonfat milk, but you can swing that pendulum all the way to heavy cream if you so desire. The important thing is to add slowly and stop as soon as the dough pulls together.
- Once you have a pulled together dough, dump onto a lightly floured surface. Using your lightly floured hands flatten (to about 1/4"or 1/2" thickness) and shape dough into a rough rectangle for cutting. Using a pizza cutter, cut dough into desired shapes.
- Transfer scones to ungreased cookie sheet. Leave plenty of room between the scones. Bake at 350 degrees for about 17 minutes.
- Scones are done once they start to lightly brown, do not over bake.
- Cool on racks and decide if you want to drizzle with a powder sugar glaze or chocolate.
Scones are not the blobs of cheap bread dough shaped in a triangle and liberally dosed with sugar that Americans think they are (present recipe excluded, of course). And for those who complained about the crumbly dough, ummmmmm, crumbly dough makes crumbly scones. Scones are as quintessentially British as the Queen, Coronation Street, tutting and the Hollywood Handshake. Whether you slather yours in clotted cream, or dollop strawberry jam on first, this. Currant scones, sometimes slathered with clotted cream or topped with butter and fruit jam, are a very classic, British way to enjoy this baked treat.
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