Recipe Recommendation
I know, I'm the scone-maker in the family but I thought I would pass along this recipe for Orange Buttermilk Scones. I was afraid it was going to be too many different flavors, what with the orange and the currants and the cinnamon/sugar but I had another one this morning with breakfast and it's definitely growing on me. A very breakfasty food, too. I found this because we had a whole bunch of oranges and I thought...I wonder what you can bake with oranges? This is an excellent answer to that question. The orange peel adds a nice subtle flavour to the dough and mixes well with the currants through it. And who can complain about a cinnamon/sugar glaze? First person I find who dislikes that will be the first. And it made 12 instead of the usual 8 yield for a recipe so that was cool.
It reminds me a little bit of a recipe I have for apple cinnamon scones which are also an excellent breakfast item. I'm definitely starting to have a marked preference for scones that have chopped up fruit pieces in them, that's for sure. It's nice to have a family of converts, too, who all get excited when I make them in the morning (though on the other hand, I have to share them with more people, except for J who is not a fan of currants for some reason).
Now...how else can I get rid of (I mean..."use") this buttermilk in our fridge since it expired yesterday...or maybe that was just the sell by date.
:-)
EDIT: I didn't "grate" the orange peel...I threw it into our food processor and that worked just as well. Also as an amendment to that recipe link which says to cut into 18 rounds with a biscuit cutter (HERESY), I took the dough in half, patted each half into a round about 8 inches in diameter, and then cut each round into 6 wedges, for a yield of 12.
It reminds me a little bit of a recipe I have for apple cinnamon scones which are also an excellent breakfast item. I'm definitely starting to have a marked preference for scones that have chopped up fruit pieces in them, that's for sure. It's nice to have a family of converts, too, who all get excited when I make them in the morning (though on the other hand, I have to share them with more people, except for J who is not a fan of currants for some reason).
Now...how else can I get rid of (I mean..."use") this buttermilk in our fridge since it expired yesterday...or maybe that was just the sell by date.
:-)
EDIT: I didn't "grate" the orange peel...I threw it into our food processor and that worked just as well. Also as an amendment to that recipe link which says to cut into 18 rounds with a biscuit cutter (HERESY), I took the dough in half, patted each half into a round about 8 inches in diameter, and then cut each round into 6 wedges, for a yield of 12.