Rosemary Cornmeal And Black Pepper Scones Food

CORNMEAL SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Mix flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl.
• Cut in butter using pastry blender or 2 knives, until mixture looks like fine crumbs.
• Stir in buttermilk so dough leaves sides of bowl and forms a ball.
• Turn dough onto lightly floured surface.
• Knead lightly 10 times.
• Pat or roll into 7 inch circle on ungreased cookie sheet that has been sprinkled with cornmeal.
• Score top into 8 wedges, cutting down halfway to the bottom.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until light brown.
• Immediately remove from cookie sheet, carefully separate wedges.
• Serve warm.

BETTER THAN GRANNIE'S CREAMED CORN

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium heat, sweat the onion in butter and salt until translucent.
• In a large mixing bowl, place a paper bowl in the middle of the bowl. Resting the cob on the bowl in a vertical position remove only the tops of the kernel with a knife, using long smooth downward strokes and rotating the cob as you go. After the cob has been stripped, use the dull backside of your knife to scrape any remaining pulp and milk off the cob.
• Add the corn and pulp mixture to the saucepan and cook over medium high until the juice from the corn has tightened. Add the rosemary. Sprinkle the corn with the sugar and turmeric. Stir constantly for about 2 minutes. Sprinkle the cornmeal onto the corn, using a whisk to combine well. Add the heavy cream and cook until the corn has softened, about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove the rosemary. Season with freshly ground black pepper.

GRUYèRE AND BLACK PEPPER SCONES

Steps:

• Set a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, black pepper and salt, and stir to combine. Add the butter to the bowl and toss to coat the cubes in the flour.
• Use your fingers to smash each cube of butter into a flat sheet, tossing to coat in flour and break up the butter a bit as you go. You will have some flat pea-size pieces of butter, and some will be worked into the flour completely. Add the cheese, walnuts and chives, and toss to combine.
• Make a well in the center of the butter and flour mixture, and add the buttermilk. Very gently stir until just combined and shaggy, but don't overmix. If the mixture seems very dry, add another tablespoon or two of buttermilk. If the mixture seems very wet, add a tablespoon or two of flour.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat into a 1/2-inch-thick rectangle. Fold the rectangle in half, then shape it into an 8-inch circle. Cut the dough into 8 equal triangular wedges, and carefully transfer them to the baking sheet; they will be fragile. Brush the tops of the scones with the dregs of buttermilk left in the measuring cup (add a little more if necessary), then sprinkle the scones with flaky salt and more pepper.
• Bake the scones until golden brown, 19 to 23 minutes. These are best the day they are made, but will last a day or two on the counter in an airtight container. Alternatively, let them cool completely, then transfer to an airtight container and freeze for up to a month. In either instance, warm before serving.

ROASTED RED PEPPER CORNMEAL SCONES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 425°F Grease baking sheet.
• In large bowl, stir together flour, cornmeal, thyme, baking powder cream of tarter, and salt.
• In small bowl, beat together egg and brown sugar; stir in roasted red pepper. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, add egg mixture and butter milk. With fork blend into flour mixture until soft dough forms (if dough is to stiff add additional buttermilk--if too sticky, add more flour).
• Turn dough onto floured surface; gently form into 8-inch round.
• Place on baking sheet; lightly score the top into 8 wedges. brush with egg white.
• Bake at 425F for 5 minutes; reduce temperature to 375°F and bake an additional 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned and bottom sounds hollow when tapped. Cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack. For softer crust, wrap warm loaf in towel. Serve warm.

ROSEMARY CORN SCONES

Steps:

• 1. Slice and finely chop cold butter and put in freezer for up to 15 minutes whil you gather and measure out the rest of the ingredients - turn on oven to pre-heat at 400. Combine the flours, cornmeal, baking powderbrown sugarand chopped rosemary in the bowl of a food processor. Then takethe chopped frozen butter and as you pulse in short pluses add it in and pluse just till the butter is mixed into the dry ingredients, it will look and have a texture of sand and pebbles ,then it will be time to add in the whole egg and the egg yolk, honey and cream, and mix them in with short , quick pulses, working the dough as little as possiable.
• 2. turn the dough out on a lightly floured work surface, knead the dough gently for a few seconds to bring it togeather, and rollit out to 3/4 inche thick, with a lightly floured rolling pin.
• 3. cut scones out of dough with a square cookie cutter or with a knife into 3 inch squares and arrange them 1 inch apart on a parchment lined baking sheet, lightly roll the leftover dough back togeather and cut out more scones , Brush the tops with the melted butter and dust them with the sugar, if you like you can press a sprig of rosemary into each one of them. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, untill golden brown and firm. serve warm or at room temp.

SUN-DRIED TOMATO, BASIL AND BLACK PEPPER SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven 400 degrees.
• Stir together dry ingredients and herbs; first 7 ingredients.
• Blend in butter to look like coarse cornmeal.
• Stir in tomatoes.
• Mix milk with egg; stir into flour mixture until moist.
• Gentily knead 8 to 10 turns; then pat into 6" circle on ungreased baking sheet.
• Cut 8 wedges and separate slightly.
• Bake until golden 15 - 20 minutes.
• Brush with seasoned olive oil or melted butter.

LEMON-BLACK PEPPER CORNMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Whisk the flour, cornmeal, black pepper, if using, and salt together in a medium bowl.
• 2. Beat the butter, sugar, and zest in a medium bowl with an electric mixer, beginning on low speed and increasing to medium-high speed, until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and beat to combine well. Reduce the speed to low, add the flour mixture, and beat on low speed just until blended; the dough will be crumbly.
• 3. Press the dough together with your hands and divide it in half. Place each half on a sheet of wax paper and form each piece into a 10-by-1 1/4-inch log. Smooth each log with dampened fingers. Chill the logs, wrapped in wax paper, for at least 3 hours, or until firm.
• 4. At least 25 minutes before baking, position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 400°F. Butter 2 large nonstick baking sheets.
• 5. Cut each log into 1/4-inch-thick rounds and arrange the rounds 2 inches apart on the baking sheets. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, for 10 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies are golden brown. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack and let cool.

CORNMEAL PLUM SCONES

Steps:

• Put honey and bay leaf in a medium skillet over medium heat. Simmer until honey is bubbling and turns a shade darker, about 2 minutes.
• Place plums in honey. Cook, without moving, until undersides are golden brown, about 5 minutes. Stir plums and cook 1 to 2 minutes longer, until tender but not falling completely apart. If the caramel starts to get too brown, stir in a teaspoon or two of water and lower the heat. Scrape plums and syrup into a bowl and chill for at least 1 hour. (Plum compote can be made up to a week ahead.)
• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
• In a small bowl or measuring cup, mix together the cream and egg.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt (or you can do this in a food processor). Using a fork, pastry cutter or your fingertips, cut butter into flour until the mixture forms coarse crumbs (or pulse in a food processor). Drizzle in as much of the cream mixture as you need to make a smooth, moist but not wet dough. Save remaining cream-egg mixture for brushing.
• Turn dough out onto prepared baking sheet. Pat into a 1 1/4-inch thick round. Using a paring knife, cut 8 wedge-shaped scones (as though you were cutting slices of pie) and push them apart on the baking sheet to separate them 1/2 inch apart. Brush dough with remaining cream-egg mixture, or use more cream if you've run out of the mixture.
• Using your fingertips, make a deep indentation about 1 inch in diameter in the center of each scone. Tuck some plum into the hole. Transfer pan to oven and bake until uniformly golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes. Cool 5 minutes on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Serve scones with extra plum compote and butter on the side if you like.

ROSEMARY, CORNMEAL AND BLACK PEPPER SCONES

Steps:

• In a large bowl mix dry ingredients and pepper. Cut in butter until it is in tiny bits. Sprinkle mixture with buttermilk and gather together into a ball of dough. Pat on a floured surgace for a thickness of 1 inch. Cut into 12 squares or diamond shaped buns. Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and brush with egg wash. Combine cornmeal with extra pepper and sprinkle on top. Bake in preheated over 425 for 15 to 20 minutes until browned and cooked through. Serve Warm