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Title: Currant Tea Scones
Categories: Cooking liv, Import
Yield: 1 Servings

3 c All purpose bleached flour
1/3 c Sugar
1 tb Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
6 tb Unsalted butter
3/4 c Currants
1 1/4 c Milk; cream or buttermilk

----------------------------------EGG WASH----------------------------------
1 Egg beaten well with a pinch
-of salt

Line a cookie sheet with parchment or foil. Preheat oven to 450 degrees and
set a rack in the middle level.

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Cut butter into 12
pieces and rub evenly into dry ingredients, until mixture has the
appearance of meal. Add currants.

Stir milk into flour and butter mixture to form a smooth dough. Knead
lightly once or twice to complete mixing. Press and roll dough on a lightly
floured surface about 1/4-inch thick, to a 10 by 15-inch rectangle. Roll
dough up, as for a jelly roll, then flatten dough and fold in half. Roll
dough 1/2-inch thick. Cut scones with a floured, plain or fluted, 2-inch
round cutter. Transfer cut scones to paper lined pan and brush tops
carefully with egg wash. Allow wash to dry 10 minutes and apply a second
coat. Bake scones 15 minutes, being careful that they do not color too
deeply, or until they are firm, but not dry.

Yield: a dozen scones

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8998

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #904 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
on Nov 12, 1997