In Good Taste Recipe: Josie's Cream Scones

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Cream Scones

These light and delicate scones are filled with plump raisins and finished with crunchy turbinado sugar to create an interesting textural contrast. Vary the dried fruit to suit your taste. Dried cranberries are my favorite.

½ cup dried fruit, like cranberries or raisins (you can use up to ¾ cup if you’d like)

½ cup hot water

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons baking powder

3 tablespoons white sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 oz butter, cut into pieces

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons cream, divided

2 tablespoons turbinado sugar

Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly grease a baking sheet.

Combine the dried fruit and hot water in a small bowl. Soak for twenty minutes. Drain well. (This plumps up the fruit for a better finished product).

Sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Using two butter knives or a pastry knife, cut in the butter until it is the size of peas. Fold in the well drained dried fruit. Stir in one cup of the cream and the vanilla- don’t over mix the dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured surface and gently pat the dough into a rectangle about 3/4 inch thick. Cut into 6 triangles. With a pastry brush, brush the triangles with cream. Sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Arrange on the prepared baking sheet.

Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes.

- Recipe by Josie Ross

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