A Good Scone
Dear Aunt Daisy, In The Listener of June 10 a correspondent wrote of her failure to make a good scone. I would like you to forward this method to her. Mind the flour is quite dry. I always keep my flour in the hot water cupboard, and if there is the slightest fear of it not being absolutely dry, take out a tablespoonful and put in one of cornflour to lighten the
flour which must be well sifted. Now 2 breakfast cups flour (not heaped), 2 large, teaspoons baking powder (not phosphate), 4% teaspoon salt, all well sifted together, Add loz, butter rubbed in with tips of fingers. Make a well in centre and pour in a full cup of milk at once. Take a knife (a bending one if possible), and mix as quickly and thoroughly as _ possible, cutting the dough through and through, scraping it from the sides of basin. I usually flour the board by giving the sifter a turn before putting ingredients into mixing bowl. Then tip the scone mixture on to floured board, scraping it out with knife. Lift it lightly over so that the top will be well floured, press out lightly with fingers, not the palm of the hand, Have the oven hot 475 degrees electric or regulo’9 gas; the shelf three ledges from bottom of stove. Put scones on cold tray, put in oven and turn top heat to medium and bottom heat to low. Cook about 8 minutes, then turn off power, leave about 2 more minutes, then take a scone out and tear it open (not cut) to see if it is quite done before taking all out of oven. Have a cake tray with a cloth on it and a saucer of milk alongside. Dust scones ‘with cloth, dip tops in milk and put on to cloth to steam, covering scones for a few minutes to steam and soften, The quicker the. scones are mixed the better they will be. Should you get the mixture rather wet, sift a little more flour over it and chop in with knife, mixing well. It is always better to have it too wet and sift jn flour rather than too dry and then to try and moisten it.
Whenuapai
Auckland,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 22
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381A Good Scone New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 22
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