Friday, September 26, 2008
Cheese Scones **MBP**
After the last two indulgent posts, here's one inspired from a wonderful blog.
Cynthia's post on Inspired Baking, displaying amazing pictures of scones, quiches and the cheese straws made me drop her a mail asking for the recipes and she replied promptly with a clear and precise recipe. I made her cheese scones. The scones were delicious, served warm with a cup of tea.
What you need for the cheese scones : (as per Cynthia's recipe)
2 cups A P flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
3 ounces cold unsalted butter
½ cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
2/3 cup whole milk, plus 2 tablespoons to brush on scones
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in large bowl. Cut in butter until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Stir in cheese. Make a well in the center of the mixture, add milk and bring the ingredients together. Do not knead, bring the ingredients gently together.
Turn the dough onto a floured surface and roll into a ¾ inch thick round. Cut
into circles and place on baking sheet, brush with milk and bake until they turn a light brown. Serve warm.
Do not work the dough. It needs very little kneading just like how you work a pie dough. Remember to use cold butter. Just bring the ingredients together and pat them flat and cut them. My scones were a lot flatter. The only advantage being I could slob it with more jam and clotted cream. They had soft sides and less crispy crusts.
I did not halve the scones. Instead topped some of them with honey.
Some of them were topped with strawberry preserves with a dollop of clotted cream.
These cheese scones are my entry for MBP-Cheese.
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Slobber, slobber, slobber!
ReplyDelete(Inspired by your creative use of 'slob' as in "... slob more jam and clotted cream ...")
Oh dear Rachel,the stack is awesome and I am just craving for it, nice picture and tempting recipe.
ReplyDeleteWow the scones looks so good.
ReplyDeletePass me the last picture with the jam yumm
that looks nice. i have a scone (store-bought) every day for breakfast. it really can't be good for health but its just yummy!
ReplyDeleteOh Gosh, the scone is killing me with the cheesy look :) They are delectable!
ReplyDeleteLove love love this... Can I substitute cheddar for mozzarella? Just because I like the latter more.
ReplyDeleteThis looks delightful...there is a surprise waiting for you at my blog..please check it out :)
ReplyDeleteThese are sinfully delicious. They look like a cross between a naan and a pizza, both which I love.
ReplyDeleteCynthia's recipes are just great.
Simply delicious,I made savoury cheese pennies for MBP,Love yours too
ReplyDeleteI think I would dunk mine in a hot bowl of soup, instead of of jam/honey.
ReplyDeletebeautiful..ur cheese scones looks like miniature steps....lovely dear :)
ReplyDeleteummmm....these scones look so delicious!!very very tempting..
ReplyDeleteBeautiful scones just waiting to be attacked!! Only they aren't 3D!!
ReplyDeleteYummy scones..beautiful stack. Very tempting.
ReplyDeletegosh, that looks awesome. cyth is a darling. i have few of her recipes bookmarked to try soon but i might get deviated by these scones!
ReplyDeleteoh, these look rich n delicious!!!
ReplyDeletehmmmmm very tempting...looks lovely
ReplyDeletepictures tempts u so much :) nice presentation. looks mouth watering :).
ReplyDeleteThe same ingredients but bit of change in the measurements Cynthia had made lovely Cheese straws! Luv Synthia for that. And these scones expecially one topped with the preserves are making me "Sigh! why should I shift my home near Rachels? "
ReplyDeletewow............superb
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