Today I will be writing about how I made Scones in Home Economics.
Ingredients:
3 c Plain Flour
6 t Baking Powder (level)
1/4 t Salt
75g Cold Butter
1 to 1 1/2 c Milk
Method:
- Sift Flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
- Cut butter in small cubes. Rub butter into the flour, baking powder, salt gently with fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Add milk gradually. Mix quickly with a knife to form a soft dough (the amount of milk required depends on a number of factors)
- Lightly knead the scone dough a few times on tabletop.
- Place baking paper onto an oven tray.
- Cut scone dough into 12 even pieces (you can do more or less)
- Place scones onto the oven tray. Keep them quite close together to the centre of the tray.
- Brush scones with milk.
- Fan bake at 180℃ for about 10 minutes.
Variations:
- Cheese Scones
Add 3/4 c grated cheese to flour.
Before baking top with a little cheese.
- Sultana Scones
Add 3/4 c of sultanas to flour.
I used multiple processes to achieve the end outcome. We used mis en place to organise our ingredients before making our scones. We sifted flour, baking soda and salt together to aerate them and get rid of unwanted lumps. We also rubbed butter into the flour so that it would resemble fine breadcrumbs.
After this we made a well in the middle of the flour, baking powder, salt and butter mixture to pour the milk into slowly. We mixed it with a knife from the outside of the bowl to the inside until it resembled a soft dough. Next, my group and I took our dough out of the bowl and lightly kneaded it, not too much otherwise we would toughen the gluten and when the scones baked they would have strands in them; something we didn't want.
My team worked well together, when organising the mis en place we all split off to get our ingredients and we worked quickly and didn't muck around. We all took turns sifting, mixing etc. so that we all put an equal amount of effort in. Something we need to work on is our communication but apart from that I think we are off to a great start!
My group's scones turned out good, they tasted good, like scones from a cafe if I am honest! Their texture was was soft and squishy when you bit into them, the tops of the scones were crispy so they added a nice texture when you ate them. The colour was golden brown on the top and were a pale yellow on the sides. The flavour which I could taste was the butter, salt and cheese.
Something I would change for the next time I make scones I would double the recipe to make more scones and cut them so that the sizes are even as possible so they would cook for the same amount of time.
Here is a photo of my product outcome:
My team worked well together, when organising the mis en place we all split off to get our ingredients and we worked quickly and didn't muck around. We all took turns sifting, mixing etc. so that we all put an equal amount of effort in. Something we need to work on is our communication but apart from that I think we are off to a great start!
My group's scones turned out good, they tasted good, like scones from a cafe if I am honest! Their texture was was soft and squishy when you bit into them, the tops of the scones were crispy so they added a nice texture when you ate them. The colour was golden brown on the top and were a pale yellow on the sides. The flavour which I could taste was the butter, salt and cheese.
Something I would change for the next time I make scones I would double the recipe to make more scones and cut them so that the sizes are even as possible so they would cook for the same amount of time.
Here is a photo of my product outcome:
What an awesome Blog Post, Sofia. I really love the way you describe how your Scones turned out, their texture, flavour and colour. Your Blog Post is accurate, easy to read and informative. Well done!
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