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Mean Chef's Buttermilk Scones
"I adopted this recipe after the original poster, Mean Chef (IHHDRO), departed the site. He posted the recipe on Aug 19, 2002."
photo by Baby Kato
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
16 scones
ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, very cold and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1 cup buttermilk (or more)
- egg yolk
- cream
- raw sugar
directions
- Put dry ingredients in food processor, pulse to mix.
- Add butter, pulse until butter is in pieces about the size of a hazelnut.
- Dump into bowl.
- Pour in buttermilk and mix with a fork until a shaggy mass forms.
- Form into a disk about 1 1/2 inches high, cut disk in half and in half again.
- Cut each of the 4 pieces either into thirds to get 12 or in half again to get 8.
- Place on parchment lined sheet pan and freeze for 20 minutes Remove from freezer, brush tops with egg yolk/cream mixture sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake for about 12 minutes at 400.
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Reviews
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Excellent scones which rose beautifully and were a wonderful light texture. I did everything as directed until step No. 5, where I just patted it down and used a round cutter. I just like round scones. Completely forgot to put them in the freezer, but they forgave me. We had them split with jam and whipped cream. -
My friend Paula brought these to a bridal shower Sunday. She'd added dried cranberries and served them with an orange butter. I LOVED them!
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Another winning MEANCHEF recipe! I made it twice: first time followed the recipe as is - came out perfect. second time, i add some additional brown sugar (almost1/4 cup) and 2 tsp of orange zest - even better! I made good size 8 scones (baked for 10 min. turn off heat, for another 6 min in oven). They are flaky, soft, buttery, and mm-mm good! -
Very buttery and lightly sweet! Very nice texture! Thank you Mean Chef, the whole family loved them! -
I've already made these twice in the past 2 weeks and now I am making them again! I made them for my bible study and another time just for family and everyone loved them. We ate them w/ apple butter! I think this Saturday instead of pancakes for the kiddos were going to have these- Yum! I had bought the large carton of buttermilk since they were out of the small and found this recipe to help use it up, so glad I did! Thanks!!! Oh I did up the sugar about 3 Tbs or so.
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newspapergal
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