Mom gave me a couple of special vintage cook books - the one on the left belonged to my Scottish Grandma and has her handwriting all over it, and I remember the one on the right from the years my folks lived in Mackinaw City. That recipe taped to the front page of Grandma's cookbook is our family recipe for Scottish scones:
Very gently mix together
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 cup Crisco
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
Fold together until just combined - dough will be sticky. In our family, scones (pronounced rhyming with FAWN, not PHONE) the dough was rolled out with a rolling pin on a heavily floured board into a circular shape, cut into triangles and and dry-fried on a griddle. I have made more American/contemporary style scones with the same batter by mixing in dried fruit, or chocolate chips and orange peel, and dropping the batter by spoonfuls onto a parchment paper lined sheet and baking them - these are like the "typical" American scones.
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