After getting through this summer, we deserve a treat. Fresh scones with blueberries and cream (or ice cream!) with iced tea and tiny sandwiches is it! |
By now, with any luck, you will have been through or are undergoing lots of cooling, refreshing rain.
It's been a beltingly hot, almost unbearable summer and we've all been through the mill.
If you've decided to treat yourself for resisting the urge to run naked down the streets screaming during the worst of the suffocating heat, try these wonderfully light and lovely blueberry scones, with thick clotted cream or even vanilla ice cream.
Served with iced tea and maybe a few small sandwiches, hopefully sitting somewhere shady and cool, the scones will be fabulous!
Cost: £1.75 (2022)
Makes: 5-6 total but recipe doubles easily
Ingred:
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
75gm/2.5 oz cold, cubed butter
1 eggs, well beaten
generous handful blueberries that have been washed (and if non-organic soaked 10 mins in 9 parts water and 1 part vinegar) and picked over to remove squishy or spoiling berries
100ml whipping or double cream
1 ball ginger in syrup, drained, in fine dice (opt but oh-so-fabulous!)
1/2 generous teaspoon syrup from jar of ginger in syrup (opt)
low-sugar blueberry jam/compote (instant home-made or purchased)
1. Sift dry ingred; rub or coarsely process in butter until mixture resembles peas
2. Make a well in the centre; pour in eggs & milk. Stir lightly with a fork until mixture just holds together.
Tri-folding of dough |
3. Turn out onto a lightly floured board and press lightly and quickly into a rectangle about 1/2 inch (1 cm) thick. Mentally divide the rectangle into three, lengthwise. Fold the left hand side onto the middle; and the right hand side onto the middle & left sides, introducing pastry like layers into the dough.
4. Repeat twice, handling dough as little as possible
- Whip cream until it forms med-firm peaks
- Stir in diced ginger and ginger syrup, distributing as evenly as possible
- Serve scones with ginger cream and blueberry jam
This recipe has been developed by B Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.
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