scones....i love them....i am not sure tilly ever had a scone .....they were not in our family food repertoire....i don't think i ever tried one until i tasted one of karen's at breakfast one day...(karen is irish and scones are definitely in her repertoire) ..i traveled to Ireland with karen maybe 15 years ago and ordered scones there...WOW...do they do scones!!!!! have you ever had a scone at one of the large national coffee shop chains in the US? they are disappointing to say the least....they aren't buttery or rich and they are tooooo sweet...i stopped bothering. (they do have wonderful scones at balthazar in new york city!!! ) ina garten makes lovely scones but somehow they did not say EASY to me...until one day i saw tyler florence make these ......... seriously i did not believe my eves.....how could they be that easy...i had envisioned rolling and cutting dough with biscuit cutters and lots of other complicated steps....these are ridiculously easy.....the basic
recipe is tyler florence's that i have made countless times with fresh blueberries and they are wonderful... combing through my new cookbook stack (thanks santa), i got some inspiration from deb perelman's smitten kitchen cook book ....she specifically mentions experimenting with scones......so i took a tried and true recipe and messed with it....i used what i had...these were awesome!
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| i ate one before i took this picture! |
recipe after the jump
