Scones have come a long way from their origin as humble oatcakes baked at the hearth on an iron griddle. A clue to their long ancestry is the buttermilk and baking soda still used as their leavening – dating from the days before modern baking powder. Oatmeal scones are still the most traditional version of [...]
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Blueberry Buttermilk Rolled Scones
Posted in Baked goods, Preserves on February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Jamming with Strawberries
Posted in Fruit, Preserves, tagged jam, strawberries on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you live in Manhattan, you have to be a little crazy to go to the trouble of making your own strawberry jam. I do it every year. It’s not about cost – though jars of premium jam can cost anywhere from $5 to $15 in stores hereabouts. It just pleases me to make my [...]
Week 10: Pecan orange muffins; Apple butter
Posted in Baked goods, Everything else, Preserves, tagged apples, muffins on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week I felt like going back to my oldest cookbooks to see what they could still teach me. My very oldest was my mother’s – America’s Cook Book, published in 1937. She received it as a wedding present in 1938 from my father’s grandparents. After about 50 years of hard use, it was in [...]
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