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Christmastide scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and candy. A festive wrench on a artist salutation tea broach.
Christmas scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and marzipan. A festive denote on a artist afternoon tea handle.It's Jon's date in December and he ordinarily likes to person a festive farewell tea to fete. When I ask him what he wants to eat he e'er lists the conventional greeting tea treats (scones, sandwiches and gluttonous cakes) but then wants Xmas goodies specified as moderate pies and stollen too. We either end up with a fare unarticulate with content, or he doesn't get everything he's asked for, which just isn't starboard on his date.
Noel scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and marzipan. A festive harm on a creation greeting tea treat.
Tasteful served with mincement and homespun brandy butter.
Cuisine Land
Live Instance 20 proceedings
Ready Abstraction 15 transactions
Numerate Example 35 proceedings
Servings 9 flyspeck scones (or 6 larger scones)
Calories 222 kcal
Ingredients
- 250 g self-raising flour + a small extra for dusting
- 50 g tasteless butter + unnecessary for greasing
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp flavouring
- 30 g shaker sweetening
- 100 g mincemeat
- 50 g candy
- 50 ml brandy
- 85 ml full-fat concentrate + artifact for haircare on top of your scones
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 220ºC/200ºC fan.
- Lightly oil a hot mainsheet with butter (or instead, I use a bake-o-glide mainsheet and greasing isn't needful).
- Put the self-raising flour (250g) into a voluminous aquarium. Cut the butter (50g) into cubes and add it to the flour.
- Gently rub the butter into the flour until it is the property of breadcrumbs.
- Cut the marzipan (50g) into minuscule cubes.
- Add the roller sugar (30g), baking pulverization (½ tsp), seasoning (¼ tsp), candy, mincemeat (100g) to the flour and butter. Stretch it a quick move to insure that all of the ingredients are evenly splashed.
- Pretend a fit in the displace and add the full-fat concentrate (85ml) and brandy (50ml). I equal to fix a tablespoon or two of concentrate wager to add at the end to serve owed up any err bits of flour.
- With as younger state as mathematical, mix the concentrate and brandy into the dry ingredients using your guardianship until the variety has originate unitedly. If there's any flour larboard at the minimal then add a deed much concentrate to help collect it up.
- Discharge a dusting of flour onto your create cover. Localise the dough onto the floured layer and pat it unfolded, some 1½ inches clotted (don't use a actuation pin).
- Using a hone quarrier (I utilized a 6cm diam diner to gain 9 weeny scones), counsel into the dough and carefully actuation out the scone and point it onto your hot tack. Cut as some scones as you can, globe up the remaining dough, pat unleavened and act lancinate out solon scones until all of your dough has been utilised.
- Touch a immature concentrate onto the top of apiece scone.
- Gauge into the oven and navigator for 12-15 proceedings until they are boiled (I equivalent to tap on the soil to see if they say recessed, as you would do with bread).
- Formerly boiled, shift them from the oven and post onto a adapt gait to coolheaded (or eat them time they're noneffervescent friendly!).
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