Thursday 7th August - More Scones

These came out all right! I used some properly 'gone off', as opposed to 'sour' cream instead of butter. It's a recipe I suddenly remembered when I had got as far as adding the cream to the flour;

SR flour, double cream and .... fizzy lemonade! Of course I didn't have any lemonade in the house; the question was, 'would a can of Kopperburg non-alcoholic cider with strawberry and lime work as a substitution?' After all, it's sweet, fizzy, and citrus flavoured...

This is the recipe from the bbcgoodfood website. It's not the recipe I used this time, but I have used it before and it is very reliable.

I sort of bodged my way through, leaving out the egg (which I've never used in scones) and just sort of arriving at something that looked and felt about right.

They tasted fine; the lemonade scones always have a faint scent of lemon when they come out of the oven but it doesn't affect the flavour. These ones came out faintly strawberry scented! 

Do give the recipe a try! (They only reason I would ever want to go on Bake-off would be to make lemonade scones for Paul Hollywood without him knowing and see his reaction) 

Music

Look, and listen to what I've just found! Ahhhhh.... words etc below video.

https://youtu.be/UPhb0OYVeGw?si=5MmfnGrn7EcqJwtw

The VOCES8 Choir & Orchestra perform Rebecca Dale's 'The Cloths of Heaven' in a new orchestration by Iain Farrington, conducted by Barnaby Smith.

The track was performed as part of a Live From London concert at All Hallows' Church, Gospel Oak, London, and a recording can be found on the ensemble's 'To Sing of Love' album. 

Elizabeth Cooney - Leader

Emma Denton - Cello

Ilid Jones - Oboe

Julian Bliss - Clarinet

Lise Vandermissen - Harp

Text from 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'

by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Video Producer: Barnaby Smith

Camera Operators: Alexander Van Ingen and Aytan Buyukoglu

Audio Engineer and Mixer: David Hinitt

Audio Session Producer: Adrian Peacock