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Scones

Welcome back! 
Today, we have a recipe for scones! Scones hail from the British Isles, with different regions featuring different variations of the dish. Traditional British scones are actually rather like biscuits. However, this recipe is more for an American scone, which you often see in the shape of a triangle. Like British scones, they are usually sweet, but American scones tend to be heavier and drier. 

Scones


Makes 8 scones

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 stick unsalted butter, frozen
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream or half & half
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup add-ins (we used dark chocolate chunks and dried cherries)
To garnish:
  • A little more heavy cream or half & half
  • Fleur de sel

Directions:

  1. Sift the flour into a bowl and combine it with the sugar, salt, and baking powder.
  2. In another bowl, mix the heavy cream/half & half, egg and vanilla together.
  3. Take the frozen butter and grate it. 
  4. Put the butter into the dry ingredients and mix it until it's clumpy; don't let the butter soften, so move quickly!
  5. Put the add-ins into the mixture, still don't let the butter soften.
  6. Add the wet ingredients and don't over-mix.
  7. Take out this dough and put it onto a pan. Form a circle with the dough (about 8" in diameter and cut it into 8 wedges). 

  8. Brush some more heavy cream/half & half and sprinkle the fleur de sel on top.
  9. Put this in the fridge for at least 15 minutes to chill.
  10. Take it out of the fridge and bake it in the oven at 400°F for about 20 minutes.

  11. Enjoy!

As noted before, these scones were made with dark chocolate chunks and dried cherries. However, there are other ingredients that you could add in instead, like blueberries or cranberries, maybe some nuts too.  You could also just add nothing, and then you could pair it with something like jam. Also, this recipe uses some salt on top. The balance between the sweet and the salty is pretty interesting, but if that's not your thing, you can skip that; you could also add some turbinado sugar on top instead.

-Chefpo
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