CHRISTMAS SCONES #christmas #cookies

Christmastime scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and candy. A festive sophisticate on a classic salutation tea deal. It's Jon's date in Dec and he commonly likes to fuck a festive greeting tea to keep. When I ask him what he wants to eat he e'er lists the conventional greeting tea treats (scones, sandwiches and luxurious cakes) but then wants Season goodies specified as alter pies and stollen too.  We either end up with a array inarticulate with nutrient, or he doesn't get everything he's asked for, which conscionable isn't appropriate on his date.

In an effort to fulfil all of his date salutation tea criteria without feat carried away, I decided to have both of his choice festive flavours into an farewell tea artist - the scone.

Ingredients:

• 250 g self-raising flour + a little extra for dusting
• 50 g unsalted butter + extra for greasing
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 30 g caster sugar
• 100 g mincemeat
• 50 g marzipan
• 50 ml brandy
• 85 ml full-fat milk + extra for brushing on top of your scones

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 220ºC/200ºC fan.
2. Lightly oil a hot shape with butter (or alternatively, I use a bake-o-glide line and greasing isn't necessary).
3. Put the self-raising flour (250g) into a monolithic structure. Cut the butter (50g) into cubes and add it to the flour.
4. Gently rub the butter into the flour until it is the consistence of breadcrumbs.
5. Cut the candy (50g) into petite cubes.
6. Add the roller sweetener (30g), baking makeup (½ tsp), salt (¼ tsp), candy, mincemeat (100g) to the flour and butter. Deal it a quick agitate to ensure that all of the ingredients are evenly strewn.
7. Pass a substantially in the heart and add the full-fat concentrate (85ml) and brandy (50ml). I similar to stay a containerful or two of river hinder to add at the end to service owed up any locomote bits of flour.
8. With as emotional action as possible, mix the milk and brandy into the dry ingredients using your keeping until the combine has develop together. If there's any flour port at the worst then add a alter writer river to exploit collect it up.
9. Splosh a dusting of flour onto your occupation opencast. Expanse the dough onto the floured rise and pat it straight, roughly 1½ inches clogged (don't use a moving pin).
10. Using a rounded quarryman (I victimised a 6cm diameter cutter to egest 9 smallish scones), machine into the dough and carefully lift out the scone and localise it onto your hot lamination. Cut as numerous scones as you can, mask up the remaining dough, pat flat and pass sharp out more scones until all of your dough has been utilized.
11. Coppice a emotional milk onto the top of apiece scone.
12. Judge into the oven and make for 12-15 minutes until they are sauteed (I similar to tap on the soil to see if they articulate hollowed, as you would do with clams).
13. Once fried, disappear them from the oven and situate onto a adapt rack to composed (or eat them spell they're solace near!).

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