Scones with American Measurements

Hi Dear Folk,

Preparing for lunch with a friend.

Setting the tea tray, with my old Betty Brown Teapot from England and the flower tea cosy I crocheted.

I love that brown dish from a pottery in the UK.  I was with my mum and sister when I bought it.  We all bought a couple of items.  Fond memories.

I came across this lovely Scottish lemon curd and strawberry jam with champagne, it's delicious.  May even enter the win a trip to Scotland.

Scones, I haven't made them forever, so decided to write down my own American version in cups.  I know measuring with cups is not as accurate as weighing in grams, but my is it easier.  Plain ones for Mr. B and scones with raisins for The Boy and I.  They were delicious, maybe could have kept the depth thicker when rolling them out.  One thing I embraced when moving to the USA was measuring in cups.

Scone Recipe with American Measurements

2 Cups Flour Sifted
4 Tea Sps Baking Powder (sifted in with flour)
1/2 Cup White Sugar (can put in less to taste and especially if you sprinkle with sugar on top)
1 Stick Butter (8 Tbsps)
1 Egg Beaten
Milk to mix
1/4 Cup Raisins if desired (pour boiling water over them, drain, pat dry and shake with a little flour to dust.  My grandma always told me to do this.)
Bake 350 F
15 Minutes or until golden brown on top

Sift flour and baking powder together, rub in butter, add sugar and raisins (another alternative is cheese) Mix beaten egg with enough milk to form into a dough ball.  Knead on floured board and roll out to a depth of at least one and a quarter inches, if not more.  Cut with a circle cutter approx size of about 2" circumference.  (Can also just pat entire dough ball into a circle then cut into triangles on the baking sheet.)  Coat with left over egg and milk wash, sprinkle with sugar.  Bake on a greased baking sheet.

Now when I bought this silver sugar coal skuttle, I'm sure the seller said something about putting it out with strawberries and cream.  But my friend said her mum had one and it was set out with sugar lumps in, dah! Of course, lumps of coal, cubes/lumps of sugar.  Next time I'll get sugar lumps, harder to find over here in the USA.

I have a mixture of pottery on the tray.  A milk jug from Grandma, a sugar bowl from a pottery near Niagara Falls in Canada.  Old 1960's cups and saucers.

Out in the garden, of course the sun has shined all week except for our lunch on Wednesday, where you needed a shawl to keep the chill off, but I was not to be thwarted.  We came inside for lunch.

I made a chicken salad and as I so often do, used what I had in the fridge, which was of course cooked chicken cubed, diced onions, three different peppers, yellow, orange and red, diced mango, apple and some blueberries, along with mayonnaise and lemon juice, and very tasty it was too, if I do say so myself.  I was going to put walnuts in but forgot, we had this along with some mixed Asian veg.

We had a lovely chatty time, with plans for a picnic and trip to the shore next time.

Christine