Saturday, September 22, 2012

Make My Saturday Sweet - Blog Hop #7

Hubby was given a South African Heart Foundation cook book at the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. It’s a paperback called Cooking from the Heart. Yesterday, just before the kids got home from school, he noticed a scone (biscuit) recipe and decided to try it. Now, he has helped me in the kitchen before, but I never saw him wanting to bake on his own and we’ve been married for seventeen years. So, it came as quite a surprise to me when he decided that he wanted to try the recipe and pulled it off like a pro! I was showering and getting dressed when I reminded him from the bedroom to get the oven on. He replied that there were already scones baking in the oven. My thoughts were, “Wow! That was fast!” I took these pictures, so that I could show you how great they turned out. We ate them with a sprinkle of cinnamon, butter, apricot jam (jelly) and grated cheese. Hubby said the recipe was really easy.
Ingredients:
1 cup whole-wheat flour
1 cup cake flour
1 Tbs. baking powder
1 egg, beaten
1 cup plain low-fat yoghurt (yogurt)
¼ cup sunflower oil
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 C (356 F). Lightly grease a baking tray and dust with a little cake flour.
2. Mix flours and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Beat egg, yoghurt (yogurt) and oil together.
3. Stir egg mixture into the flour until it just forms a soft dough. (The trick to light scones/biscuits is not to over mix/overwork the dough.)
4. Gently press dough out onto a lightly floured surface to about 2 cm (about 1 inch) thick. Take care not to handle the dough too much.
5. Cut out scones using a small cookie cutter or water glass. (Hubby went slightly larger and he doubled the recipe too.) Dip the cutter or glass in extra flour if necessary.
6. Place scones on baking tray. The left-over dough can be pressed together and cut into more scones.
7. Bake for 15-20 min. or until golden brown and cooked.
Makes 12 small scones/biscuits

Now, on to the blog hop...

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Welcome all of you wonderful bloggers to Tina and Tricia's blog hop, Make My Saturday Sweet (M.M.S.S.)! I hope that here we will all make new friends and find new followers and have fun doing it!

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    I accidentally submitted the link to a recipe instead of the blog name. I submitted the blog name if you could remove the recipe link it is Apple Crisp. I submitted the blog name. Thanks for hosting the party. I found you on google + this morning. Thanks for hosting. I'm following.
    Debi @ Adorned From Above
    1 reply · active 653 weeks ago
    Thanks Debi! I've just deleted it for you! I'll visit everyone's blogs tomorrow. Have a great weekend. :)
    Happy Saturday!! Your daughter has your smile :) )) Thanks for linking up with my NO RULES Weekend Blog Party! I've just linked up with yours as well. I think I've also followed you back everywhere. If not I will!! So much to keep track of.

    Have a great weekend!!
    Paula
    lifeasweknowitbypaula.blogspot.com
    Wowee, those scones look amazing. I've been with my husband for 4 years now and have never seen him cook anything. :)

    Thanks for the invite to link up with you wonderful ladies. Hope you all have a great weekend. xoxo

    Bonnie @ www.alittleunhinged.com
    1 reply · active 652 weeks ago
    This evening I finished going to everyone's blogs who linked up. Thanks for linking up! Also, I shared your post on Google+ today.
    Wow! I'm very impressed. My kids get nervous when my hubby announces he'll bake cookies or make dinner. Ok, maybe we ALL get a bit nervous! lol
    I LOVE this and wish my husband would follow suit! Thanks for running the blog hop. I will try to takie a look at all of the new blogs this week...and I will try to use this recipe sometime soon!
    I had a baby 14 years after her nearest sibling. She's 14 now and the others are all adults. It's fun tho. She's very spoiled by all the others.
    1 reply · active 652 weeks ago
    Hi Janet! I just read that she's in high school now. Congrats! I understand that the honor classes will keep her busy, but I hope for her own well-being that she has time for a hobby. Just a few months ago, my hubby told our 14-year-old daughter not to study on a Saturday and to clean her room first. She likes to get good grades, but I think that's the first time that a parent told a kid not to study and the child was upset by that. Hahaha!

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