Scones:
3 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 salted butter
1 cup buttermilk
1 Tbls cream
fruits and or nuts ~1 cup or savory flavors
Preheat oven to 400. Sift all dry ingredients together. Cut butter into dry ingredients and work with hands until the mixture resembles corn meal. Add about 2/3 of the buttermilk and any fruits/nuts desired then stir as little as possible. Add the remaining buttermilk only if needed. The dough can get very wet depending on the fruit. Work with as wet of dough as you are comfortable, it makes for moist scones.
Gently roll out dough to a large round slab about 1in thick. Cut into 16 'pie pieces' and cut in half again if scones are too big. Place on cookie sheet. Use pastry brush to brush tops of scones with heavy cream.
Cook for approx 15min or until the edges are golden brown. Again, it depends on what filings were added.
FILLINGS- I use whatever is in season, experiment with what works
-Fresh Apples and Walnuts, sometime small chunks of ginger
-Fresh Strawberries and Bananas
-Fresh Plums and Pears
-Fresh Cherries!
-Reconstitute Dry apricots with Amaretto overnight, drain and add pecans
-Savory fillings - Bacon Cheddar and fresh sage
