Tea Time Scones

I really wasn't planning on writing about food. I love to eat however, and the things that have been taking up my time are making yummy things to eat.

Here is a simple recipe for scones. Every once in a while I need a scone, warm and crumbly, with a large pot of tea ( preferably Yorkshire Gold) I would love a little bit a rain, and a wonderful book. Not a Kindle no matter how "green" it is I want a real book with real pages and that real dust smell which usually accompanies older books. I want to sit in an abandoned room like Emily Starr, by a window and read, drink tea and eat a lovely scone.

 In a bowl...
2c of flour
1/3c of lovely brown sugar
1tsp of baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2tsp of Salt
1/4thc  of cold butter.

With a pastry cutter or two forks mix all the ingredients together until mixture is crumbly.

Here is the "dry" mix all crumbly

 Now I know this looks a little questionable.
 In a separate bow
1 Egg
1/4c of milk
1/4c of Greek yogurt or sour cream ( this will make your scones moist!)
1 tsp of Vanilla

Add some lemon rind... Go by feel on this one!
some like theirs really lemony and others don't!

 Mix it all up!

Make a well and dump the wet mix in with the dry and mix it all up in to a wetish ball.

 add the blueberries ( mine were dried)
If you want to add fresh blueberries
coat them in flour and "fold" them gently in to the ball, try and be very gentle or you will have purpleish/grey scones.
People will not want to eat them because they look mouldy!

mmmm the smell is lovely so lemony!

 As you can see I have added a little too many blueberries they are just bursting out of my scones.

Bake these lovely things in the oven at 365 for 10-15 minutes or until they are golden.

Now for that purple/pink topping you see.

2tbs of cream cheese
1tsp of butter
1tbsp of jam
Throw the cream cheese and butter in the microwave for 20 seconds so both are spreadable. Add the Jam and voila! You have a scone topping. its not quite Devonshire cream but its tasty!