posted by Mimi Hiller 07-03-98 12:56 PM
CLABBER CREAM SCONES
Source: Jonathan White at the Egg Farm Dairy
2 oz dried apricots, apples, peaches, or other dried sourish fruit(dark,
unsulphered, sun-dried preferred)-optional
1/2 t baking soda
1 t cream of tartar
1 3/4 cups flour
1 T sugar
1/2 t salt
4 oz butter
2 eggs
1/3 cup Clabber Cream (Creme Fraiche)
Preheat oven to 450F.
Chop dried fruit in food processor until
the size of rice. Set aside.
Run soda and tartar through a strainer to grind out the lumps, then put in
processor with flour and sugar,and salt, run for 1 minute.
Cut the butter into chunks and add to the flour, run machine until
mixture looks like coarse meal.
Beat the eggs smooth. Add 1/3 cup of Clabber and mix until smooth.
Add the egg mixture to the dry, in three gulps, while running the motor.
Mix only until it forms a cohesive pasty dough.
Flour a work surface well, then scrape the dough out of the processor
into a lump on the flour.
With floured hands, pat the lump flat, into a rectangle about 1/2 inch
thick. Cut into diamonds (or other shape)
Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly golden. Toaster oven may take
long, say 15- 18 minutes.
If necessary, turn toaster oven to "broil" to brown tops.