Scones and work art

 Hello fellow readers and welcome back todays blog post is about what I have been doing for cooking.So for cooking last week we had been makeing scines I think my team could have done better and the teamwork could do with some improvement.

Here is the recipe for the scones we made.

Scones

Ingredients

3 c Plain Flour

6 t Baking Powder (level)

¼ t Salt

75g  Cold Butter

1 to 1 ½ c Milk

2 T Sugar (optional)

Method

1. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl

2. Cut butter in small cubes. Rub the butter into the flour, baking powder, salt gently with fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add sugar (optional)

3. Add milk gradually. Mix quickly with a knife to form a soft dough (the amount of milk required depends on a number of factors)

4. Lightly knead the scone dough a few times on a lightly floured tabletop

5. Pat dough out into a rectangular shape (about 2cm - 2.5 cm thick)

6. Cut scone dough into 8 - 10 even sized pieces 

7. Place scones onto the oven tray lined with baking paper. Keep them quite close together towards centre of the tray

8. Brush with milk

9. Bake at 200°C  Bake for  about 8 - 10 minutes until lightly golden and cooked ( you can use Fanbake function)

Variations

1. Cheese Scones

Add ¾ c - 1c grated cheese, pinch of cayenne pepper after step 2

Before baking top with a little cheese

2. Sultana Scones 

Add ¾ c sultanas after step 2

3. Date Scones

Add ¾ c chopped pitted dates after step 2

Accurate measurements are very important in this recipe

Remember Baking is a Science !!!!!!!!!

This week for are therory we had to make some work art about what some of the ruls are for cooking class