Water Bakes #3: Scones

Bonjour everyone!

And whee, here we go with even another recipe!

This time, it's something very special. It's not really a candy, but delicious anyways, and I love this recipe.

Out of all the recipes, this one's my most favorite.

Aleo, when you try them, make sure you do them early enough because they taste best when they're still fresh from the oven.

But let's finally start, right?

Recipe #4:

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A small, little information at the beginning: scones are a british dessert, and typically served for tea. You usually put jam or whipped cream on them (but honestly, I think they're super delicious without as well).

And this is how they are done:

First, you'll obviously need the ingredients:

(Since this is a British recipe, the ingredients were all in grams already, so I hope the conversion is correct uwu)

Step 1:

So, I finally did it right: I cut the pumpkin before I started the actual recipe.

Take your pumpkin and start cutting it.

I first cut it into two halves and then started cutting it into small slices.

I cut the right half like how I could cut an apple and the left how I usually cut the pumpkin.

My aim are small cubes here and this is actually recommended. As you could see at my other recipes, I usually cut rather big cubes, but scones are rather small, so bug cubes would be in the way.

Since I'm a lazy person, I took out the NicerDicer we have and let it do part of the work.

Why only part? Because while it does cut the slices, I still have to add the energy to do so. So, my hand did hurt quite a bit, after I was all done. Especially since some of the slices were too thick (the apple ones oof) and I needed a lot of strength.

But here we are now, with beautifully cut pumpkin.

I'd say they're about half a centimeter on each side.

Step 2:

Now, we start on the dough.

We'll add the flour...

... the sugar and salt...

... into a big bowl.

Then, you take a spoon and gently mix them together.

Heads up: you will hear the word "gently" a lot in this recipe.

Step 3:

Once it's all mixed well, it's time to add the butter. But don't add it as one big block; cut it before into smaller pieces.

Now, unlike the other recipes, this butter has to be cold, like refrigerator-cold. This is because we'll be doing a special procedure with it where warm butter is absolutely *not* made for.

Because we're going in with our hands and use a technique called "rubbing".

This means that we're going to rub the butter and the flour mixture between our fingers. Gently, of course.

(If you'd like to see how it's done, check out this video ^^)

The butter and flour will eventually mix, but this technique ensures that there are still little butter flakes in the dough which gives the dough a better taste.

Also - it is honestly really satisfying doing it with your hands. (Though my mom lost her belief in me when she saw me doing this XD)

Step 3:

And now, it's time to add our pumpkin.

The same applies here - gently mix in the pumpkin. Make sure you don't destroy your butter flakes, though honestly - that's why I cut my pumpkin that small: it should substitute the butter flakes.

Step 4:

Next up are the milk and the egg.

Pour the 250ml milk in a separate drinking glass/measuring jug and add the egg to it. Mix them.

Now, create a well in your dough: make a deep hole in the center of it and then pour your egg-milk-mixture into there.

I don't have any pictures of it because I just put both into the dough separately xD

And it was a very sticky undertaking lol

I do think though that this step makes more sense than how I did it.

So, if you're feeling brave, you can just go in the dough with your hands immediately. If you're a bit more careful, you start mixing the dough with a spoon first, before going in with your hands.

And if you're very careful, you just do it all with a spoon.

Make sure you're doing this gentle though.

Step 5:

Once your dough is mixed well enough, you take it out and put it on a smooth and clean surface. Once that doesn't move, preferably lol

In the beginning, the dough is very sticky, so you'll have to add a bit more flour to get it un-sticky.

But the problem is that the pumpkin releases so many liquids that you can add a whole extra kilogram and it's still sticky, so if you want to, you can knead your dough a little bit, but it won't help that much.

I don't have any pictures of this as well as my hands were still dirty and the dough was messing with me, so I put it back into the bowl and into the refrigerator.

I don't quite remember why, but it hella annoyed me, so I finished the recipe on the next day.

Step 6:

Now, it's baking time. Preheat your oven on 170°C (340°F) and get yourself a baking sheet.

Cover it with parchment paper.

Usually, you would roll out the dough and then cut it, but again, the dough is way too sticky for that.

So, you'll just take a spoon (or an ice scoop, but I went with a spoon this time) and form small round scones on your baking sheet.

They don't need nearly as much space as the cookies, so you can put more on one sheet.

The scones would actually get an eggwash, but eeeh, I didn't dare do that.

If you want to though, feel free to do it. An eggwash is a mixture of an egg with milk or water.

With that, they're ready and you can put them in the oven now. They'll need 25 to 30 minutes.

They're ready once they have golden top and are also golden underneath.

I turned one around for you to see :3

Step 6:

And with that, they're ready to eat, enjoy!

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My mother was hesitant to try them at first, but once she did, she enjoyed them.

Though they have been misused as bread rolls instead >:0

But now, she wants me to bake them as well *again*. I really should'nt have baked all that stuff xD *facepalm*

Anyways, I hope the sight of them didn't make you too hungry owo lol

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I hurried to get this done before I had to go to work lol

Actually, the cinnamon rolls would have been next, but I still have to figure out how to write it properly (and I have way more images than I'm allowed to), so I figured this one would be the faster recipe to write lol)