welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen now this is may 20 20 and the
queen has cancelled all of her summer garden parties so for those of you who
are planning to visit Buckingham Palace or Westminister or Sandringham this
summer for a nice garden party with the Queen not gonna happen
but the palace has been nice enough to release the recipe for the scones that
they serve in the garden so that's what we're gonna make today so into this
mixer I have put flour and sugar next in is some baking powder and some well
chilled butter and I'm just gonna pulse this together and you don't want to take
it too far you just want to get it to the point where the butter is broken up
into really tiny little bits maybe about the size of a pea or smaller and of
course you could do this in a bowl with your fingers and just rub it together go
old-school I find this way kind of works better for
me I find it's faster and the butter doesn't melt so now we need buttermilk
well this is pretty thick that buttermilk was pretty thick well
fermented now into the end of the buttermilk I'm going to crack and then
whisk in two eggs
and now the buttermilk gets mixed into the flour mixture the recipe gives an
optional ingredient at this point and that is Sultana raisins that have been
soaked in hot water and then drained I had a couple kinds of raisins today but
I didn't have sultanas so I chose to use these currents so I'm gonna put those in
they've been soaked in hot water and then drained so I just want to mix those
in at the same time to make sure they're distributed evenly and we mix this until
we get a dough now once I've got a dough ball I'm supposed to put it out onto the
counter flatten into a disk cover and then let it rest for half an hour
because I need to let it rest for half an hour I'm gonna put it onto this
baking tray instead so that I can move it out of the way in the kitchen
so almost flatten it out into a disk or as disk-like as I can get doesn't say
how thick it needs to be and I'm wondering if I should have put down
flour first I guess we'll find out in the next step okay half an hour not much
has changed visibly they look pretty much exactly the same now the dough has
though gotten a little bit stickier as the as the flour hydrates over this time
period it does get stickier so it went from a
dough that almost didn't come together to something that is now really really
nice so I am gonna put a little bit of flour on the counter top this is just so
it doesn't stick to the bench and then we'll transfer over and roll it out you
want to be about an inch thick then it says to cut into desired shapes I've
never been to a garden party with the Queen so I don't know what to use but
I'm just going to choose this fluted cookie cutter and we'll cut some out
after they're cut I've transferred them to a baking sheet where we cover them
and let them go another 20 minutes now the last step before baking is to brush
the tops gently with an egg wash so I've got a beaten egg here and a brush and
we'll just gently put that on the oven is preheated at this point to 350
degrees Fahrenheit and they bake for 12 to 15 minutes
hello Glenn hello friends I see we have some afternoon snacks the Queen's scones
oh really yeah how nice of her to come her to
share that she's not having garden parties this summer so she's got some
extra sky well she gave away the recipe you couldn't find clotted cream and in
Novakovich yeah I don't think in the best of times here in our regular
grocery store I mean there's always specialty stores that you can get it
from but in the regular grocery store it's not something you see so of course
with a big dog it's great that's what I mean so then this is our bitter orange
marmalade anything that I can put that on that's great what it's lovely I like
the little uh it's it's a pretty basic sconce yeah yeah yeah give it a try no I
of course you were not there my mom and I did the tour of England and in
September Buckingham Palace she's not there so they let you tour around so I
had some snacks in her yard they weren't scones they were just a
little I can't really remember had a little crown on top mm-hmm someday I'll
have tea in Buckingham Palace maybe mm-hmm okay so pretty basic scone
recipe um I should have called chef Higgins hmm
so if you look back on our channel way back on the channel there's a video of
Chef Higgins peeling a grapefruit mm-hmm he's done some other ones but the
peeling the grapefruit is one that springs to Mike he worked for the royal
family cooking so he probably knows this recipe well probably knows it backwards
and forwards so give it a try you know pretty good recipe basic ingredients
clearly I've already eaten my house so mu thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
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