I love a scone. Even my little Freckle who doesn't eat sweet things and cries when we try to make him eat birthday cake (because really, peoples, this ridiculous behaviour just has to stop!) loves a scone (sans jam).
I would love to say that I got this recipe from a one-armed lady in Cunamulla who had been baking them for centuries but alas, this is not the case. The truth is that I have no idea where I got the recipe from... I think that someone just told me one day, when I was whining that my scones never turn out soft and fluffy that "It is as simple as 1,1,3".... for all you scone novices out there, like I was - that is 1 cup of lemonade, 1 cup of cream, 3 cups of self-raising flour. That's it! I have for your printing pleasure done a lovely little printable recipe so you can put it in your recipe file, along with Grandma's Nut Roll and Aunty Shirley's Butter Gems, or you can just remember 1+1+3.
So, after I have made these delicious morsels... practised a bit, actually, they were perfect the first time but I had to try them another 20,000 times just to check, I started to pull out the good 'ol scone at functions. And the requests for the recipe came flooding in, and now I believe that my recipe has gone international and made it all the way to Essex where a sweet friend of mine is humming 1+1+3 away in her kitchen. I am actually awaiting Masterchef calling me in the next short while to be guest judge on their scone episode.
Even Baby Freckle got in on the scone making act today!
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| My Yr 8 Home Ec teacher told me to put scones on the tray like this... she made us use a ridiculous recipe that made my fingers hurt from rubbing in the butter but this trick of putting them all on the tray touching is actually a winner as they rise higher. Thanks Mrs Brown! |
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| Another tip: if you aren't serving them straight away wrap them in a tea-towel. Keeps the steam in and stops them from becoming little rock cakes. |
But great, I hear you say, what is the twist? The twist for these little morsels of joy, is that the secret ingredient actually, does not have to be lemonade. This time I used orange mineral water just because it was what I had in the fridge to be used up, but you could use whatever bubbly (haven't tried champas but hey, give it a go and let me know!) liquid you have lying around.
Want to make savoury scones? Add some salt, herbs and a little cheese and use soda water instead of lemonade.
Want a little zing of lemon? Use lift or solo.
And it works.
So here once again, is the link to the recipe on my website, I even have a thermomix version and an ol'school version. Or you could just remember the scone-algorithm for perfect scones, every time - 1+1+3!
Happy afternoon tea-ing,
Felicity xx
BTW - We had these particular yummy scones after school today. One of my Freckles told me he doesn't like scones. I believe this is actually genetically impossible but he disagreed, refused to try the scones and settled on a slightly floury apple instead. I had even made blueberry jam!
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