Recipe: Currant Scones

Currant Scones
Makes 9 scones

A warm basket of scones is always a welcome sight on a Saturday morning! What better way to make these age-old treats than to bake them in a stone hearth oven?

Ingredients

• 21⁄2 cups flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 4 oz. butter
• 3⁄4 cup currants
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk

Method
Oven Temperature: 380-400 degrees

• Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
• Flame Height: 3
• Melt the butter in a saucepan just inside the doorway of the oven.
• Add the currants and sugar to the butter and stir. Slowly stir in the milk.
• Move the saucepan to center of oven and bring to a boil.
• Once the mixture begins to boil, move pan back to the doorway and let cook for 2 minutes.
• Pour butter mixture into the flour mixture and quickly stir to combine.
• While the mixture is still hot, drop the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet in 1⁄3 cup measurements.
• Flame Height: 1
• Bake in doorway until lightly browned, about 8 minutes, rotating cookie sheet after 4 minutes.
• Transfer to a rack to cool.