Scones

[unforth]

My mom has been making scones from this recipe my entire life. They aren't actually typical scones, they are much more oat-y, but when I think of scones they are what I think of, cause, like I said, I've been eating them my whole life. :)


Ingredients:
2/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
1/3 cup milk (skim milk will work)
1 egg
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ¼ cups Quick Quaker Oats, uncooked (or 1 ½ cups Quaker Old Fashioned oats)
¼ cup sugar
1 Tbs. baking powder
1 Tsp. cream of tartar
½ Tsp. salt
½ cup raisins or currants (optional)

Directions:
Add butter, milk and egg to combined dry ingredients; mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in raisins. Shape dough to form ball; pat out on lightly floured surface to form an 8-inch circle. Cut into 8 to 12 wedges; bake on greased cookie sheet in preheated hot oven (425 degrees) 12 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown. Serve warm at breakfast or brunch with butter, preserves or honey, as desired.

Makes 8 to 12 scones.


When I made them with skim milk, I calculated that they had about 300 calories each, but I don't recall the exact proportions that went into that calculation, so don't trust me. :) It works well with most dried fruit - we used cranberries for the ones at the vow renewal. :)

Comments

[schenker28.livejournal.com]

My recipe for making scones is:

* Try to make muffins.
* Use too much flour.

Makes 8-12 scones. :)

[unforth.livejournal.com]

lol. Do they turn out tasty??

[schenker28.livejournal.com]

That depended entirely on the extent to which they were "covered in jam".

And that sentence was entirely too convoluted, just so I could stick my favorite Eddie Izzard phrase at the end.