Cranberry Lemon Scones Food

CRANBERRY LEMON SCONES

Steps:

• Add lemon juice to milk and let stand 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add butter and cut into flour with pastry blender until texture of coarse meal. Stir in dried cranberries.
• Stir in milk to moisten dry ingredients.
• Roll out on a floured surface to 1/2-inch (1 cm) thickness. Cut into 2-inch (5cm) rounds or squares. Sprinkle with granulated sugar.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

LEMON CRANBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• In a food processor add the flour, baking powder, sugar, lemon zest and salt. Pulse to mix together well. (You can just mix the ingredients in a bowl if you prefer the manual method)
• Pulse in the butter until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. (or just use your fingertips to rub the butter through the dry ingredients until the same texture is achieved.)
• Whisk together the milk, egg and vanilla. Reserve a few teaspoons of the liquid to brush on top of the scones. This helps them brown nicely)
• Add the liquid to the dry ingredients along with the dried cranberries and stir in quickly with a wooden spoon until a soft dough forms. It should be a little sticky. Don't over work the dough or your scones will get tough and not rise well.
• Turn the dough out onto a well floured board or counter top.
• Lightly sprinkle the top of the dough with flour and just using your hands, form the dough into a round about ¾ of an inch thick.
• Using a 1½ inch biscuit cutter, cut out your scones and place them about 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet.
• Re-roll the scraps and cut out the rest of the scones. Brush the tops of all the scones with the reserved milk and egg liquid.
• Pop the scones into the hot oven for about 12-15 minutes or until the tops of the scones are evenly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
• Serve with thick or clotted cream and your favourite jam.
• Simply mix together the ingredients until smooth with no icing sugar lumps.
• The glaze should be thick but still pourable. If it is too thick add a little more lemon juice, if it is too thin, add a little more icing sugar to bring it to the proper consistency.
• I like to make the glaze in a small shallow ramekin, which makes dipping the tops of the scones in the glaze quite easy.
• Let the glaze set for a half hour or so before serving.

LEMON CRANBERRY OAT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Mix dry ingredients together (flour, oats, baking powder, lemon zest, sugar).
• Stir oil into dry ingredients.
• Mix in cranberries and almonds.
• Add vanilla extract and milk.
• Stir until the dry ingredients are damp and will clump together.
• Drop into four mounds (six if you like your scones smaller) on parchment paper lined or greased baking sheet.
• Sprinkle with course sugar, if using.
• Bake for 20 minutes, until lightly browned.

MEYER LEMON CRANBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• With a vegetable peeler remove the zest from lemons and chop fine, reserving lemons for another use.
• In a food processor pulse flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, salt, butter and zest until mixture resembles coarse meal and transfer to a large bowl.
• In a small bowl toss together fresh cranberries and 3 tablespoons sugar and stir into flour mixture. If using dried fruit, add to flour mixture.
• In another small bowl lightly beat egg and yolk and stir in cream. Add egg mixture to flour mixture and stir until just combined.
• On a well-floured surface with floured hands pat dough into a 1-inch-thick round (about 8 inches in diameter) and with a 2-inch round cutter or rim of a glass dipped in flour cut out as many rounds as possible, rerolling scraps as necessary. Arrange rounds about 1 inch apart on baking sheet and bake in middle of oven 15 to 20 minutes, or until pale golden.
• Serve scones warm with crème fraîche or whipped cream. Scones keep, individually wrapped in plastic wrap and foil, chilled, 1 day or frozen 1 week.

CRANBERRY AND ORANGE SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Grease a large baking sheet.
• Mix the sugar with the flour, then rub in the butter till mix resembles fine breadcrumbs.
• Toss the cranberries and zest together with a small amount of flour and stir into the mix.
• Make a well in the centre and tip in the yoghurt. Mix to form a soft dough then knead on floured surface briefly.
• Press or roll out the dough to a thickness of 2cm then cut into scones using a cutter. Dip the cutter briefly into flour to stop the dough sticking, then place on the baking sheet.
• Mix one beaten egg with a splash of water to make an egg wash or just use milk alone, then brush the tops of the scones. Be careful not to let run over sides as this affects the scones rising. Sprinkly over the demerara sugar.
• Bake in the centre of the over for about 15mins until golden brown and well risen. Leave to cool then serve spread with butter.
• TIP - you can change the flavour to any you prefer, if you want plain for serving with jam and cream, leave out fruit and add 1 tsp vanilla extract. Lemon zest and raisins are also very good.

DRIED CRANBERRY, WALNUT, AND LEMON SCONES

Steps:

• Position rack in top third of oven; preheat to 375°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Whisk 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in bowl for glaze.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, lemon peel, salt, and 1 cup sugar in large bowl. Add chilled butter; using fingertips, rub in until coarse meal forms. Mix in cranberries and walnuts. Add 1/2 cup half and half and1 tablespoon lemon juice. Toss with fork until dough comes together in moist clumps, adding more half and half if dough is dry. Gather dough into ball; divide in half. Press out each half on floured surface to 6-inch-diameter (1-inch-high) round. Cut each round into 6 wedges. Transfer to baking sheet; brush with glaze.
• Bake scones until golden and tester comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

CRANBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• In a separate bowl, toss cranberries with sugar; add to flour mixture along with orange peel and nuts. Mix lightly.
• In another bowl, beat together cream and egg; slowly pour into dry ingredients, mixing with rubber scraper until dough forms. Knead dough 4 or 5 times, being careful not to over handle. Divide dough in half. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Shape each half into a 6 inch circle. Cut each circle into 6 wedges. Place scones on lightly greased baking sheets.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

DRIED CRANBERRY, WALNUT, AND LEMON SCONES

Steps:

• Position rack in top third of oven; preheat to 375°F Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Whisk 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in bowl for glaze.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, lemon peel, salt, and 1 cup sugar in large bowl. Add chilled butter; using fingertips, rub in until coarse meal forms or use pastry cutter to cut in butter.
• Mix in cranberries and walnuts. Add 1/2 cup half and half and1 tablespoon lemon juice.
• Toss with fork until dough comes together in moist clumps, adding more half and half if dough is dry.
• Gather dough into ball; divide in half. Press out each half on floured surface to 6-inch-diameter (1-inch-high) round.
• Cut each round into 6 wedges. Transfer to baking sheet; brush with glaze.
• Bake scones until golden and tester comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.