{"id":15466,"date":"2012-06-01T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:55:37","slug":"scone-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/06\/scone-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Scone Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15584\" title=\"scones\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I used to roll my eyes and scoff at scones. \u00a0Oh don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love them to bits and think they are delicious!<\/p>\n<p>However the idea of &#8220;cutting in&#8221; cold butter did not sound appealing to me. \u00a0Plus I did not own a pastry cutter so it seemed like I was SOL.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I decided that I could use my food processor to help break up the butter into the flour.<\/p>\n<p>Duh, right?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it takes me a little while to work through things.<\/p>\n<p>So I made my first batch of scones with butter and half and half.<\/p>\n<p>Oh they were so good!<\/p>\n<p>And I plan on fiddling with the recipe a little more and seeing what I can come up with. \u00a0To make this first batch I just used a really simple basic recipe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flour<\/li>\n<li>Butter<\/li>\n<li>Cream (half and half)<\/li>\n<li>Baking Powder<\/li>\n<li>Salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Easy! \u00a0It came together quickly and I let the dough chill back up in the fridge again before rolling and baking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones2.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15585\" title=\"Scones \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/scones2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really follow any sort of pattern to cutting them, I just let it go however it turned out. \u00a0I don&#8217;t mind them that way. \u00a0Sometimes when things look too perfect and fancy, they lose their appeal to me.<\/p>\n<p>These, with different shapes and sizes, were perfect for our laid back Sunday breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be making more for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to roll my eyes and scoff at scones. \u00a0Oh don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love them to bits and think they are delicious! However the idea of &#8220;cutting in&#8221; cold butter did not sound appealing to me. \u00a0Plus I did not own a pastry cutter so it seemed like I was SOL. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-41s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}