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Scones Recipe

Brought to you by Jefferson Street B&B Inn

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Ingredients:
4 cups unbleached white flour or all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp baking powder
2 tsp salt
12 oz (3 sticks) butter, at room temperature,very soft
6 Tbsp sugar
1/2 cup golden raisins
4 eggs, lightly beaten
Milk or sour cream, as needed, about 1 cup

Instructions:
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt into a large mixing bowl. Break the soft butter into pieces of about 1 ounce and scatter them about into the flour. Now, here's the trick for the lightest scones. Don't dig in and pinch the butter and flour together as if you are making biscuits. Scoop up a handfull of flour and butter and very, very lightly run your thumb across your fingers, allowing the flour to sift through your fingers. At first, it will seem as if nothing is happening, but within two minutes the mixture will resemble fine crumbs.

Now, add the sugar, raisins, and eggs. Fold them into the flour mixture as if you were mixing a souffle. Keep it light. The hands are the best tool for this.

It is impossible to tell you exactly how much milk to use. Start with about 1/2 cup and add a bit more at a time, folding and mixing to make a soft dough. This is a good place to use up that last bit of sour cream or half & half too.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured board. Do NOT knead it. Just pat it out into a rectangle about an inch thick. Cut it into diamond shapes about 2 1/2 or 3 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. As John Tovey says, "Do NOT roll the mixture out and cut it into delightful scalloped circles and then economically re-roll to get a few more. If you do this, your scones are bound to be heavier."

Put the diamons on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake them at 425 degrees for 10 minutes, or until they are lightly browned and puffed.

You make savoury scones out of the same recipe by omitting the sugar and raisins and using 1/2 cup grated cheese and a teaspoon of ground coriander or curry powder.

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