Cooking with Asia

Prep time: 15 min. Cook time: 15 min.

Ingredients

2 c. all-purpose flour

¼ c. white sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. salt

¼ c. butter, chilled

1 apple – peeled, cored and shredded

½ c. milk

1 tbsp. milk

1 tbsp. white sugar

¼ tsp. ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, and salt into a large bowl.

3. Cut in butter or margarine until crumbly.

4. Add shredded apple and milk. Stir to form a soft dough.

5. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.

6. Knead gently 8 to 10 times. DON’T OVERHANDLE

7. Divide dough in half. Pat into two 6-inch circles.

8. Place on parchment-lined. Brush tops with milk, and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

9. Score each into 6 pie-shaped wedges. CALL ME over to check your piece sizes.

10. Bake at 425 degrees F for 15 minutes, or until browned and risen. Serve warm with butter.

I really enjoyed making these at home because they were easy to make and in my opinion they tasted great. I don’t think that I did it correctly though. On the recipe it said to score the dough into six pieces so I just assumed that I had to make indents but I'm not sure if the scones were supposed to be that big. They were about the size of my hands so I'm pretty sure I read the instructions wrong somewhere because they were so huge. When I was making these I think that I did pretty good making the scones because they ended up tasting really great. I also messed up a couple of times though when I was making them. I made a little mistake and then I made a worse mistake. My first mistake was that I didn’t check if we had parchment paper before I started gathering everything together and only by the time I was done did I realize I didn’t have parchment paper to put them on. But good thing that I found a rubber parchment paper substitute to use that worked just as well. My other mistake was that I overmixed the dough and I was playing with it too much which I should've known not to do that but I only knew I overmixed it when it was sticking to everything. Something that I learned in class that helped me in my kitchen was how to score. I wouldn’t have known otherwise what to do if I hadn't learned it in class. If I were to make this again I would definitely make sure I'm prepared with all of the materials I need. I'd also make sure that I don’t overwork the dough since now I know how easy it is to overwork it.