a baking blog
When I was a child, I held the firm view that fruit and cheese did not go together. (Cheese + crackers = perfect snack. Apples + cheese = gross.) Clearly, my tastes have evolved. I now can think of no better healthy snack than a …
When I got it into my head that I wanted to make rhubarb-buttermilk-brown sugar scones, I did what I normally do in such situations: I began scouring the internet for a basic buttermilk scone recipe that I could adapt. After a bit of searching, I …
A few weeks ago, I brought some strawberry-rhubarb scones into the office, where they were quickly devoured. One grateful colleague told me, with some astonishment, that he had not realized that scones could be so “light.” (He was referring to the texture, rather than the …