Happy New Year 2008!
And, just for New Year’s, I’m including a link to a recipe for an article I wrote a few year’s back called “The Perfect Scone” for Northwest Palate Magazine. It’s the perfect New Year’s (or any winter’s day) breakfast food, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, with a simple list of ingredients – even better with fresh jam and cream. Eat right away.
The recipe produces the best scones, but be sure to mix everything by hand, sparingly – overmixing makes the dough tough.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
Felicity
Interesting! My scone recipe uses shortening. Hmmm.
Robert
Q: “What’s the fastest cake in the world?”
A: “Scone”
(only works with the British pronunciation, i.e. “s’gone”)