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Here are some of our favorite scones recipes to serve for breakfast, brunch, or any occasion. Enjoy them with your favorite tea or coffee.
Sourdough Einkorn Scones with Dried Blueberries
These Sourdough Einkorn Scones are made with home-milled whole grain Einkorn pastry flour and include an egg for added richness. I utilized sourdough and baking soda as the raising agents and the soda also acts as the neutralizing agent. The delicacies are flavored with dried blueberries, brushed with melted butter after baking and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar on top.
These cheesy spelt scones remind me of the cheese biscuits you get at some restaurants. The flavor is exceptional!
Chocolate Chip Spelt and Einkorn Scones
These Chocolate Chip Scones are made with soured almond milk instead of buttermilk and include a mixture of Spelt and Einkorn flours instead of all-purpose flour.
The original recipe for these Cranberry Orange Cream Scones is from a handwritten manuscript dated from the 1920s. The cranberries give the scones a unique texture and the orange juice provides a hint of citrus flavor. Enjoy these scones with breakfast or afternoon tea.
These Prairie Scootin’ Bannock, submitted by Rod in Dallas, are an interesting departure from the norm. Bannock are a type of Scottish scones which represent a cross between a chewy oatmeal cookie and a biscuit. This “pioneer” version is made with spelt instead the traditional oats and barley flour and are baked instead of cooked on the griddle.
Pumpkin ‘N Spice Spelt Scones for Fall
To celebrate Fall and all my favorite things, including a new tea pot, I made Pumpkin ‘N Spice Spelt Scones with whole grain spelt. These scones will satisfy your sweet tooth, and they pair well with tea.
These Walnut Buttermilk Scones are delicious! The buttermilk provides the moisture, the walnuts add a little crunchiness and the creamy cinnamon sugar topping puts them over the edge.
These whole wheat scones are also known as Pilgrim Scones. The combination of all-purpose and whole wheat flours, honey, buttermilk and raisins makes these scones delicious as well as nutritious.
Traditional method of making scones
The traditional method of making scones is to rub butter, vegetable shortening, or lard into the dry ingredients by hand to form flakelike particles. More modern methods incorporate the fats using either an electric mixer with the paddle attachment or a food processor. Each of these methods can produce excellent results, but care should be taken to follow the directions carefully for incorporating the fats into the flour.
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Source:
Walter, Carole. Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More. Clarkson Potter/ Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Copyright 2007.