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I came across this scone recipe article while browsing through an old magazine when I was waiting for my car to be washed. The article was in a mountain bike magazine of all places to find a scone recipe. It looked interesting though since it was talking about how to make healthy, wholesome scones while still enjoying a tasty treat.
If you miss those lovely scones from Cameron Highlands you could try your hand at making them. As for me, I'm not much of chef so hopefully those of you who like baking can make sense of the instruction to bake a wonderful scone in your oven. Lately, my wife was keen on trying her hand at baking and has gone about purchasing an oven. Hmmm…, perhaps I might pester her to bake me some scones when the oven arrives rather than wait for some of you to invite me for an afternoon tea and scones with Devonshire cream! Ah, just thinking about this, conjures up a relaxing atmosphere and reminds about having a break at the highlands. Ok, stop day dreaming because first, we need to make the scones. And if ever my wife gets around making those scones, perhaps I might blog about it here at Cameron-Highland-Destination.com. But first the recipe. So here goes.
Instructions for making scones
Step 1
Ingredients
300g whole meal plain flour
75g caster sugar
100g margarine
110ml soya milk
Handful of raisins
Soya yoghurt
Strawberries for toppings
Other info
10 mins prep time
12 mins total cooking time
makes up to 9 good-sized scones
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Switch on your oven to 220 degrees, put 300g of plain wholemeal flour in a mixing bowl, then add six teaspoons of baking powder and 75g of caster sugar. Mix briefly.
Chop up 100g of margarine with knife, inside the bowl, then use your fingers to rub it into the flour. You'll soon have a mixture that looks like breadcrumbs. Add a big handful of raisins.
Step 2
Add 110ml of soya milk and mix in with your knife, then your hands. You want to end up with a ball like lump of dough that is not too dry but not too sticky, either. You may need to add a little extra milk or flour to get it spot on.
Step 3
Sprinkle flour onto the table so your dough doesn't stick, put it onto the flat surface and squash it into a square, 2 cm thick. Make two cuts each way to get nine scones of equal size. Now grease up a flat baking tray and sprinkle flour over it. Make sure you shake it to get it nice and even. Place the scones 2cm apart so that they don't rise into each other.
Step 4
Cook for 12 minutes, but check after 8 minutes. Turn if one side is cooking too fast. When golden brown on top they're ready. Let them cool on a wire rack before you cut them. Slice up some strawberries, get the soya yogurt (yep, really healthy scones!) from the fridge and get ready to eat! Yum!
Tips
According to the article, the wholemeal flour, soya yoghurt and strawberries provide lots of good nutrients, natural sugar and limited fat. Of course, if you can't find these ingredients, you can also "hantam" with whatever you have in hand, though that may not make for a healthy scone. You could try using off the shelf blueberry, raspberry or strawberry jam from the supermarket.
Another interesting point is that scones freezes well, so you can make a bunch of them and keep them in your freezer. Take out and thaw them later as and when you feel like having an English afternoon tea with scones and using yoghurt as substitute for Devonshire cream for that healthy break!
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