Not bread

Ive been trying to post for about a week and a half. It has not been easy and I’m sorry. I made not bread this past week or so. Not bread is pretty fun. The time and attention tolls are less demanding and the payoff comes faster. I made cherry lemonade scones (that’s what I’m calling them) and I made Christmas biscotti (pistachio, cranberry, white chocolate, you get the idea). While the second one is involved and would take a while to type up, the first is pretty easy.

Preheat to 375. Zest 2 lemons, then cut and juice. Add the juice to a cup of dried cherries and let it sit on the counter. Whisk together 2 cups flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1/4 tsp salt. Cube 1 stick of butter (not cold but not soft) and add to the flour mix. Bring together with your hand (harder), a pastry knife (hard), or an electric hand mixer (easy) Until you get the butter flour gravel of a short dough. Add 2/3 cup buttermilk to the gravel. Drain the cherries and reserve the juice. Add 1 tbsp to the mix and put the rest to the side. Mix it up. Add the cherries and bring together with a wooden spoon or hand. Please dont use the same wooden spoon you use for your dishes with onion and garlic and stuff. That’s gross. Pour out the dough onto the bench and bring it together to a rectangle about 20cmx10cm. Roll the whole thing to about 2cm thick. Cut them however you like. Squares, rectangles, triangles. Just don’t do that thing where you leave remnants then reshape them. That gets you tough scones. I do rectangles and I got about 14. Move the scones to baking sheets lined with parchment or silicone mats. Melt about 2 tb of butter and brush the tops. You can put sugar on if you like your lilys gilded. Bake about 25 minutes. While they’re baking make a glaze by mixing a cup of icing sugar with just enough of the reserved lemon cherry juice to make a paste the consistency of school glue. When the scones are done cool in the pan and glaze them after a few minutes then move off the pan. Add coffee and bacon and you got brekkie. Check the insta for pics.

Up next, Christmas stuff.