Sconjuring Weeks 3 and 4

Life's getting in the way of consistent bakes and also consistent write-ups. However, I have managed to do two bakes, Weeks 3 and 4 which are Cheese as well as Ginger and Treacle.

Cheese Scones

This is the 3rd scone in the list and the final basic one, after whom we get into the more fun scones. The property attached to these scones is Stourhead, Wiltshire

For this we continued to use Oat milk instead of cow lactate and we changed the cheese to Cheddar Sheese which is a nice dairy-free cheese.

2 rounds of dough cut into quarters This scone had a very different look as instead of using cutters the dough was to be formed into a round, itself, and then cut into quarters. This gave the scones a much nicer appearance in my opinion.

Eight quarters of scone, topped with cheese and baked. They're golden brown on top

The final look was nice, the cheese was a lovely addition to the top of the scone. They tasted really nice and the larger size was welcome for “snacking”, though it was more of a small meal.

Ginger and Treacle.

I was very excited to bake these as it sounded like these would be delicious; turns out they are!

These are from Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire. I can imagine they sell a lot of these there, which is probably a good thing as the place looks expensive.

10 small rounds of uncooked dough on a large piece of baking paper

The only problem, and it is small, is that the portioning for the scones is small and the recipe doesn't call for much flour. Easily solved, in future, with a doubling or more of ingredients.

10 very golden scones on paper

The recipe called for the scones to be baked at 220C which, I think was too high (perhaps that was for a fan-less oven) and perhaps for too long, it requested 10-15 minutes and they were in for 13 minutes. Anyway, the well-fired scones were delicious! The treacle and the ginger work really well together.
Though there was little bounce to them, they weren't so over cooked in the centre to be inedible.

The kids were immediately wanting them after they were finished in the oven which is always a good sign.

Next bake

The next bake is partially under way and will, with all best intentions be tomorrow. They are Earl Grey Scones, slightly intrigued about these ones...

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