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Toasted Oatmeal Scones - adapted
from Cook's Illustrated
Toast in 370 degree oven for 7-9 minutes:
1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
Set the oats aside to cool
Sift together:
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
1/3 cup white sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Scatter
10 Tbs. cold butter into dry ingredients and mix
lightly with your fingers until the mixture
resembles chunky corn meal.
In a separate bowl, whisk together:
1 egg
1/2 cup plain yogurt
Add to dry ingredients any of the following:
nothing
1/2 cup golden raisins and 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
1/2 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
Stir in all the oatmeal except 2 Tbs.
Very lightly, stir in all of yogurt mixture except 1
Tbs.
Mixture will look like it'll never stick together.
Don't worry!
Place 1 Tbs. oats on wooden board, spreading
to a diameter of 7". Put globs of dough onto
board and press together to form a thick circle
7" wide. Gently press it into shape,
then cut into 8 pie-shaped portions..
Brush tops with leftover yogurt mixture, and
sprinkle with sugar. I've tried fine baker's sugar,
coarse big brown natural sugar, and regular
white sugar. The white sugar actually looks the
nicest.
Bake at 425 on parchment lined cookie sheet in
the middle of the oven for 12-14 minutes. Cool
30 minutes. I freeze these at this point. In the
morning, I take one from the freezer, sprinkle it
with water, and microwave it for 30 seconds.
from Cook's Illustrated
Toast in 370 degree oven for 7-9 minutes:
1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
Set the oats aside to cool
Sift together:
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
1/3 cup white sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Scatter
10 Tbs. cold butter into dry ingredients and mix
lightly with your fingers until the mixture
resembles chunky corn meal.
In a separate bowl, whisk together:
1 egg
1/2 cup plain yogurt
Add to dry ingredients any of the following:
nothing
1/2 cup golden raisins and 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
1/2 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
Stir in all the oatmeal except 2 Tbs.
Very lightly, stir in all of yogurt mixture except 1
Tbs.
Mixture will look like it'll never stick together.
Don't worry!
Place 1 Tbs. oats on wooden board, spreading
to a diameter of 7". Put globs of dough onto
board and press together to form a thick circle
7" wide. Gently press it into shape,
then cut into 8 pie-shaped portions..
Brush tops with leftover yogurt mixture, and
sprinkle with sugar. I've tried fine baker's sugar,
coarse big brown natural sugar, and regular
white sugar. The white sugar actually looks the
nicest.
Bake at 425 on parchment lined cookie sheet in
the middle of the oven for 12-14 minutes. Cool
30 minutes. I freeze these at this point. In the
morning, I take one from the freezer, sprinkle it
with water, and microwave it for 30 seconds.
