A lighter, brighter delicious scone that's simple and quick to prepare.
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| Just Double cream, fizzy water & flour (and in this case, peaches) produce these quick & easy fresh fruit scones. |
Scones, the familiar English baked tea-time treat served fresh and often hot from the oven, is a highlight of visits to the UK's historic country houses.
Reports that some National Trust sites are no longer planning to bake their own scones - or other treats - and will be buying them in, is not just disappointing but almost sacrilegious. Brought-in scones - even if from a central source - just won't be the same...but then many feel that is also true of the National Trust these days.
Scones are a unique English combination of bread and cake. Light and fluffy, often several centimetres high, they have a crispy exterior and fluffy, tender middles. They are the perfect vehicle for lashings of cream and jam, washed down with good English tea. But bakers often add fruit or savoury bits like bacon or pastrami and cheese.
They're a treat, an indulgence...and what else could they be with lots of high cholesterol butter as one of the main ingredients?
If you're one of those worried about the fat levels of scones, here's a solution.
A three-ingredient scone with half the fat of the usual. The recipe consists of self-raising flour, double cream and carbonated water. (Double cream is half the fat of butter: 100gm butter, 717cal; 100g double cream, 446cal).
That's all.
They're ever so easy to prep; they'd be great for a beginner. There's no rubbing of butter into fat and no mess -- tedious when you just want a nice warm scone, preferably soon. With the 3-ingredient scone, just dump, stir, shape and cut.
The dough is a little stickier than normal but if care is taken with cutting, rises beautifully. 67 has added fresh peach but plain are fine.
Cost: £1.75'ish, more for dairy-free (8/25)
Makes: 6'ish medium
Ingredients:
162g/5.7oz self-raising what flour (plain flour, add 1.5 tsp baking powder, ie 1 tsp per 100g/3.5oz)83ml sparkling water76 ml dairy double cream (see dairy-free below)1/2 tsp vanilla1 peach or equivalent fruit (optional)
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