Orange Scones
Total Time: 28 mins
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 18 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 9
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup chilled butter, cut into bits
- 1/2 cup dried currant
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1 egg
- 1 egg, separated
- 3/4 cup cream
- sugar
Recipe
- 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees f.
- 2 combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- 3 cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- 4 mix in currants and zest.
- 5 beat 1 egg with 1 egg yolk in small bowl; whisk in cream.
- 6 add to flour-butter mixture and stir until dough pulls away from sides of bowl.
- 7 turn out on lightly-floured surface and knead gently until smooth.
- 8 roll out to thickness of 1 inch.
- 9 cut into 3 inch rounds with cookie cutter.
- 10 transfer to baking sheet, spacing 1 inch apart.
- 11 brush tops with egg and sprinkle lightly with sugar.
- 12 bake until puffy and light-brown, about 18 minutes.
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