Dream scones - not quite there yet...

I WANT TO BAKE!

After not being able to do any baking for abt 2 week, I must will myself into baking somefin today. Be it somefin easy and fast... as long as i BAKE!

Was browsing thru' IK forum last nite and decided to give the cream scones Annie posted a try. It looks simple and fast, plus the good reviews posted, it's definately the best choice. However, looking into my fridge, I realised that I only have a little bit of sour cream (leftover from previous bakes)... other than that, I have the other ingredients required for the recipe. So I subsituted the heavy cream with all of the sour cream I have ( I din measure), and added some milk to make it up to 1 cup. From the threads abt this recipe, someone had pointed out that using yogurt instead of cream makes the dough very sticky. So when I worked the sour cream with milk in, I kinda expected it to happen... and it did.

Here's my improvision....

What you need

• 300gms flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 70gm unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup raisins
• 1 cup sour cream with milk

What to do

• Preheat oven @180C.
• Sift baking powder, flour and salt tog in a mixing bowl. Add in the sugar and mix.
• Cut in the butter until it resembles coarse meal.
• Add in the raisins and mix well.
• Stir in the cream & milk mixture and bind the dough tog. It turns stickly at this point.
• Place dough onto a lightly flour baking paper on tray and cut into desired portions.
• Brush on more milk on the surface and then sprinkle sugar on top.
• Bake @180C for 20 mins until surface turns golden.
• Best eaten warm! (with your favourite beverage!)

Verdict after the taste test..... this definately needs improving! Probably will go get heavy cream to try.