| Scone adventures |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|10:42 am] |
When nap times are long, I knit, read, do laundry, or bake. I'm not a very good baker. I have never been happy with rules, so I tend to prefer the improvisational nature of cooking. A dash here, a substitute there.... My baking tends to turn out poorly or at the least inconsistent. Well, that didn't seem to stop me from attempting scones last night. I went with a recipe from my new favorite blog, Orangette. It seemed simple enough, even though I've never cut in butter EVER in my life. So in order to have something to bring to my playgroup today and as a potential gift for a couple on the block who just had a baby, I dove in head first (into four).
I love the scones from the Night Kitchen in Chestnut Hill. The dough is not very sweet, the sugar coming from the jam filled middle. hey are chewy and yummy, so I was thinking I might try a jam glaze at first. So I made the dough, maybe worked it a little too much, but not too bad. I glazed with apricot jam, had them placed on my Silpat, the oven was preheated, it was almost a success! As I started to slide the baking sheet into the oven, the corner caught on the oven rack and the whole sheet of scones fell jam side down on the oven door with a heart sizzle. Yeah, I screamed. Spouse was playing computer games upstairs and didn't hear a thing....
I admit, I salvaged all but one and baked them on up! They turned out okay. As I said they were a little heavy and I wanted them a touch sweeter.
Fast forward to this morning:
Second attempt with jammy centers. I was more careful with not overworking the butter into the flour and was very ginger with a few scant kneads. Then I split it in two, rolled them out, and sandwiched them together with rasberry jam. Cut it all into wedges as he jam leaked out all over. Added a little eggwash and popped them in the oven. These are smaller, a touch sweeter and ugly as hell. They are pretty damn good. And it probably only took a half an hour.
Nice.
Baby waking, catch a later. |
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