Monday 24th November - don't try this at home

 A new recipe for scones;

To make just 3 scones;

Measure into a bowl about 4oz or thereabouts SR Flour,

Add 2 oz Benecol olive oil spread

STOP 

and attempt to put 1 oz of spread back into tub

Use the rubbing in method to combine whatever ever is left in the bowl until it looks like fine breadcrumbs. Or clumpy breadcrumbs because the spread is very soft. Just do the best you can.

Add a little sugar, about half an ounce, that's sort of half a tablespoon, and stir it in.

Add enough milk to make a soft, not sticky, not firm dough, turning it out onto a floured board. 

STOP

Because you realise that you are out of milk. You remember that 'yogurt biscuits' exist in USA and their biscuit is sort of the same as a scone. So spoon enough yoghurt, including the watery  bits from the tub of Greek yoghurt into your crumbly clumpy mixture. How much yoghurt? A bit less than you thought. 

Turn the sticky unmanageable mixture onto a board floured fairly thickly with flour

STOP, 

make sure you use SR flour, in case your niggling suspicion that you used plain instead of SR flour at the beginning is correct.

Somehow arrive at 3 pieces of dough, roughly scone size and shape.

Cook in air fryer basket for 12 minutes at 200

Cool, and gingerly try one. They look scone-like, taste scone-like but they are undercooked.

Bung them back in the air fryer, upside down, for another 5 minutes even though they are already cooked. Walk away. Abandon them in disgust.

Some hours later remember and retrieve them and put them on a plate. Walk away again. What a shambles.

Next day, BB discovers them and against my better judgement devours them with his morning coffee.

'These are pretty good,' says through a mouth full of scone and marmalade.' Wish I'd found them yesterday.' Words fail me. Miraculously they are OK.

Don't tell Marry Berry, Prue Leith or Paul Hollywood.

I shall call this method Scavenger Scones in honour of the scavenger hunt, and I hope to never follow it again!

Poem

I haven't finished with yesterday's. 

Music

Op 2 no 2. Centuries ago I learned this for my grade 7, and it has stayed with me ever since.