Sage derby cheese scones
8 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Unbleached flour |
| 1 | tablespoon | Baking powder |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Fresh ground pepper |
| 1½ | cup | Grated sage derby cheese |
| ⅓ | cup | Butter; cold |
| ⅓ | cup | Milk |
| 2 | larges | Eggs |
| Heavy cream | ||
Directions
In a large bowl;thoroughly mix to gether flour,baking powder,pepper and cheese.With pastry blender,cut in butter until the mixture resembles fine crumbs. Whisk together milk and eggs and fold into dry mixture.Quickly and lightly,knead the dough.It is important not to overwork the dough,and to keep it cool.Place the dough on a lightly greased cookie sheet and pat into an 8" circle.Cut into 8 wedges,brush the top with heavy cream and bake at 400 deg. for 15 to 18 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.Makes 8 servings...
Irwin Solomon
MC formatted/busted by Martha Hicks 4/98 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "Mega-bytes" <mega-bytes@...> on Apr 4, 1998