I love scones. So easy to make, no fancy ingredients and so good when they’re warm out of the oven with jam and whipped cream. Keira loves them too. A little too much if yesterday’s consumption is anything to go by. I made some a few weeks ago but they did not meet with her approval. So I decided to try out the buttermilk scone recipe for my thermomix. Success. So good that when I went to get one for my lunch today (yes, scones are perfectly acceptable for lunch) they had all been eaten. Let’s blame retro daddy shall we. He has a habit of eating the last biscuit/piece of cake/baked goodie and leaving the container in the same spot to give the impression there is something left.
2 Tbs caster sugar
pinch salt
60g butter, chopped
380g/mls buttermilk
jam and whipped cream
Preheat your oven to 220 degrees and grease and flour or line a square/rectangular cake pan. Rub your butter into flour, sugar and salt until resembles breadcrumbs. Add buttermilk and combine until it all comes together and knead slightly in the bowl for less than a minute. The mixture is very sticky so you might want to do this in a food processer/mixer. Just warning you it’s sticky but these are very moist scones. Now form into a round that is about 3cm thick on a well floured board. Cut into 5cm rounds and make sure you flour up your cutter. Now put your scones in your prepared tin and you want them touching each other. This makes sure they are really soft. Then bake for 15-20 minutes until lightly golden on top and hollow if you tap them. Serve straight out of the oven. You should get about 12-14 scones but I got about 10 big ones. They will keep in a container……so long as you don’t live with retro daddy!
Now if you have a thermomix then you want to place flour, sugar, salt and butter into your TM bowl and mix for about 5 seconds on speed 8 but mine took 15 seconds till it represented breadcrumbs. Add buttermilk through lid opening and mix for 5 seconds on speed 5 until it almost comes together. Now 20 seconds on interval speed with closed lid position and you will have a sticky dough then tip onto your floured board and follow the above directions. Too easy.
They sound delicious. I would have to try and make them gluten free. Where did you buy the buttermilk from? The supermarket? If so which section? Don’t recall ever seeing it before.
Have a lovely day.
Cultured buttermilk is readily available in the dairy section of most supermarkets. Alternatively, if yo make your own butter (in the thermomix) you can reserve the buttermilk from this process for your scones. Fresh buttermilk also freezes well
looks greate!!!
That thermomix is sure getting used in the Retro Mummy household..nothing like buying an appliance and really finding it useful! They look delicious.
I love these scones – they are so good and the orange cake too. I made the Flourless Almond Cake today from the thermomix book and it was deeeelicious!
Lucy
Oh…we have a daddy like that here too..empty milk bottles, empty cake tins, empty packets of choc biccies left where i last put them, but mysteriously all empty.
I cant keep up with your recipes…Will try orange one this week though…
And SUSIE, no need to buy buttermilk, you just add 1 T vinegar to 1C Milk. Its usually in the chiller section – milk/yoghurt section of a supermarket.
They look so fresh and fluffy Corrie. My mouth is watering now… cannot look past a scone with jam and cream. A simple pleasure for sure :o) xo
Delicious! Thank you