Chocolate Chip Scones Recipe

How do I manage to forget how EASY scones are to make and how IMPRESSIVE they serve? 15 minutes of prep time and 15 minutes of baking and VOILA, a beautiful, elegant addition to your brunch, breakfast or tea time.

Chocolate Chip Scones Recipe
Recipe from Betty Crocker Cookbook
Makes 8 scones

Ingredients
1-3/4 flour
3 Tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup butter, cold/firm

1 large egg, beaten

1/2 tsp vanilla
4 to 6 Tbsp whipping cream*
1/2 cup chocolate chips


* I used Half & Half. Milk would also do the job, just not quite as richly.

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Cut in butter using pastry blender (or the beater blade of your Kitchen Aid stand mixer. :)), until mixture looks like fine crumbs.

Stir in egg, vanilla and 4 Tbsp of the cream, adding extra cream only if necessary to allow dough to leave the side of the bowl cleanly.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently 10 times. Roll or pat the dough into a 10 inch flat circle.

Transfer to an ungreased cookie sheet (or lined with silicone baking mat). Score the dough into 8 wedges (marking the slices with a knife or pizza cutter, but not cutting all the way through). Brush with additional cream and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake 14-16 minutes or until lightly golden. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. Cut or carefully separate the wedges. Serve warm.


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Cranberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe

What to do when you have lots of rhubarb leftover but not quite enough to fill a second Rhubarb Pie? Why, you find what fruit you have in the freezer and you use that. Cranberries it is!  I was a bit hesitant to use a second tart fruit in this pie, thinking it might be overpowering. But, friends, believe you me...this pie is OUT OF THIS WORLD. Perfectly sweet, perfectly tart, perfectly set (no juices flowing all over the pie plate.)

Cranberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe
recipe by adorkablerecipes.blogspot.com
makes 1 pie, serves 8

Ingredients
1/2 batch Never Fail Pie Crust Recipe, to make top and bottom crusts
3 cups Rhubarb, chopped
2 cups frozen Cranberries
1-1/3 cup sugar
6 Tbsp flour
1 Tbsp butter

Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Combine sugar and flour. Sprinkle 1/4 of it over pastry in pie plate. Stir together cranberries and rhubarb, then pour evenly over the flour-sugar mixture in the crust. Sprinkle with remaining sugar and flour. Dot with small pieces of butter. Cover with top crust. Flute edges to seal.


Place pie on lowest rack in oven. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and continue baking for 40 to 45 minutes. Serve warm or cold.



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Oatmeal Waffles Recipe

I am a fan of most any breakfast food, but for Kevin waffles are near the top. On one of his days off, I decided to find a new recipe for waffles. I came across this hearty sounding oatmeal waffle recipe in a collection of Taste of Home recipes I found at a garage sale years ago. (Someone had categorized hundreds of TOH recipe cards clipped from the magazine. A steal for a dollar!)

These waffles turned out perfectly and were so easy make! Plus, you will likely have all of the ingredients on hand! That's always a win when you're in the mood for a good breakfast! 

Oatmeal Waffles Recipe

recipe adapted from Taste of Home 

Makes 12 waffles

Ingredients

1-1/2 cup flour

1 cup quick cooking oats

1 Tbsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp salt

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1-1/2 cups milk

6 Tbsp butter, melted

2 Tbsp brown sugar

Directions

In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a second, smaller bowl, stir together eggs, milk, butter and brown sugar.

Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.

Pour batter into a preheated waffle iron, according to the manufacturer's instructions. Butter, syrup, and enjoy!

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Anadama Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)

Anadama Bread was a new term for me, but when I saw the recipe in an old bread machine book I had, I knew I wanted to give it a try. Molasses was listed in the ingredients and though it's not normally an ingredient I would think of adding to bread, I was almost certain Kevin and I would enjoy eating this fresh made loaf. 

Sure enough! The slices are moist and chock full of the characteristic molasses flavor. I love toasting my piece, spreading thick with butter and sprinkling (*generously*) with cinnamon-sugar. 

Anadama Bread

recipe adapted from Bread Machine Bounty (BHG)

Makes 1 (1-1/2 pound) loaf

Ingredients

1-1/4 cup water

1/4 cup molasses

3 Tbsp shortening or margarine

3 cups flour

1/2 cup cornmeal

3/4 tsp salt

2 tsp yeast

Directions

Combine ingredients in bread machine bowl in the order listed. Use the dough cycle (or white bread bake cycle.) When cycle is complete turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Roll into a large rectangle, roughly 9 inches wide, and begin rolling into a loaf, pinching together after each turn. Place in a greased 9x5 inch pan and let rise in a warm place for 30-45 minutes, or until risen 1 inch above the edge of the pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 22 minutes (or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped). Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing. 

Serve with butter, or honey, or jam. 

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