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... the cheese scone recipe (behind the tag). I'm posting the original recipe; for just the two of us, I always make half a batch.


Cheese scones
(for about 70 pieces)

Ingredients:
400 g plain flour
250 g baking margarine (room temperature, cubed)
150 g grated cheese (I always use Emmenthaler)
20 g fresh yeast
(it doesn't work with dried yeast)
200 ml creme freche
3 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar (my addition, it makes the dough rise better)

1 egg yolk for glazing
more grated chase for decorating

Method:
1) Mix flour, cubed margarine, grated chase and salt on a pastry board. Make a mound in the middle, crumble in the yeast, add creme freche and sugar.
2) Stir them together, gradually add the flour mix, knead briefly until you get a smooth dough.
3) Roll out the dough on a little flour about one inch thick. Cut out the scones with a circular cutter (3cm diameter; or smaller, never larger). Put them on a baking tin lined with baking paper. Glaze them with egg yolk and sprinkle with grated chase.
4) Bake them in a pre-heated oven at 180°C until golden brown.


As for today's activities, I went to the café and reserved our table for Thursday. On my way back I visited the Interspar supermarket, where I found ground pistachios - something I never saw before in this country! They were insanely expensive; I still bought two 100-gram bags. They gave me some coupons, so I may go back and buy more for 20% less, unless they run out of them by then. The coupons won't be valid before October 9.

Not much else was done today. I was being lazy, basking in my success. *g*

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Date: 2025-10-06 07:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] meathiel
Okay, no cheesy scones for me, I don't "do" yeast doughs.

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Date: 2025-10-06 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Why is that? Can't you eat it or is it the work part? Because that is really simple with this one — no extended kneeding, no proving, just putting everything together.

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Date: 2025-10-06 07:34 pm (UTC)
meathiel: (Baking)
From: [personal profile] meathiel
I've never managed to get a yeast dough right ...

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Date: 2025-10-06 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I did this one with 5th-grade kids, several times. I'm sure you'd manage.

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Date: 2025-10-06 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com

I love scones! I had an apple scone for breakfast this morning.

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Date: 2025-10-07 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I love scones, too! From the sweet ones the cranberry-orange ones are my favourites.

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Date: 2025-10-06 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-day-dawning.livejournal.com
I have trouble with yeast doughs too. I’ll give it a go though!

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Date: 2025-10-06 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I don’t think you’ll have trouble with this one as it avoids the usual pitfalls of kneading and proving by design.

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Date: 2025-10-06 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-day-dawning.livejournal.com
I’m a bit of a baking failure. Which is crazy. Every other female relative is a baking genius.

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Date: 2025-10-07 06:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
You can do it! This is a recipe for people who are challenged by baking. :)

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Date: 2025-10-08 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-day-dawning.livejournal.com
Sounds like the perfect recipe for me!

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Date: 2025-10-07 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elwenlj.livejournal.com
I take it the nuts are supplies for your Great Christmas Bake Off?

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Date: 2025-10-07 06:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Absolutely! *g*

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Date: 2025-10-07 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noadvertising.livejournal.com

I will give the scones a try, even if they seem a bit small to me. Of course I, too, will have to halve the ingredients!

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Date: 2025-10-07 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Well, you can make bigger ones. I've tried several different cutters, and for me, the 3 cm ones seem to work better, but that's a matter of personal taste. Bigger ones might need 5 more minutes in the oven, though...
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