The Erratic Recipe Showcase

[osprey_archer]

This weekend, I made my first cookie sale. Five dollars for a pan of butter tart squares! Cheap at the price.

With the profits I bought milk, and then by fair means or foul procured cheese, onions, and red peppers.

Obviously this meant that I had to make onion-and-red pepper cheesy scones. As I'd never made these things before - had, indeed, invented the recipe as soon as the cheese etc. became available - I was apprehensive about how they'd turn out.

Fortunately the scones came out all right, and so I offer you the recipe.

Super Special Awesome Cheesy Scones

1 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup grated cheese (I used mozzarella, but I've made this recipe with colby - any melty cheese would do)
1/2 cup milk
miscellaneous add-ins, diced, measured to taste

Preheat oven to 475 degrees F. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut in butter until it's about the size of small peas. Stir in cheese and add-ins (I used about tablespoon each of onions and red peppers, but I bet other things would be nice too. Olives if you like them, spinach, maybe a chopped up clove of garlic? Even blue cheese - for taste, not as the main cheese).

Add milk and stir together very gently, just until everything comes together. If you over stir they'll be tough. Bake on parchment lined cookie sheet or skillet or whatever for 13-15 minutes; my recipe (this is based off another recipe) says 15, but the scones were burnt a bit, so it depends on the oven.

Eat piping hot, with butter. Scones don't keep very well - they get stale within a day - but toasting them and buttering them up revives them somewhat.

Comments

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

Damn you! More recipes I do not need.

Sounds delicious.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Oh, come now. Deep in your heart you know you need this recipe. :) It's even healthy! And it has all these wonderful possible knock-offs.

I'm hoping someone will make it with blue cheese, personally. Because I would love to hear about that.

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

Deep in my heart....I admit I cannot resist recipes at all. Ever. I like to page through them and chortle. I like having them as much as I like making the food. This is possibly compulsive.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

If compulsively paging through recipes is wrong, I don't want to be right. Sometimes when I'm feeling down I'll get out my Betty Crocker cookbook or go to joyofbaking.com (http://joyofbaking.com/) to cheer myself up.

Cooking makes me happy. I want a pantry.

[ochre54.livejournal.com]

I saw this and thought: you know what would be really stupid? And then made scones with cheddar, pickles and mustard. They turned out... interesting. Very much like a cheeseburger without the patty, which I really should have seen coming. (I sort of wish I'd had blue cheese in my fridge instead.)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I can kind of follow the cheddar and mustard, but...pickles? O.o I'm surprised they didn't throw off the consistency of the scones, given how much water they have.

But yay! I inspired someone to bake!

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

Both the bars and the scones sound yummy. I think I'll have to make the scones when I have time.

But first, let me pause and commend your titling abilities. "Super Special Awesome Cheesy Scones" is perfect--not terribly succinct, perhaps, but very descriptive.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Succinct recipe titles are for losers. They just never capture the soul of the dish, you know?

Tell me how your scones turn out! I'm curious what you'll end up putting in them.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm very tempted to try these, they sound great. Especially since the cookie recipe you put up was about the best thing ever. I love baking - the hands-on practicalness, and the almost instant reward for effort.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Resistance is futile. :) Go forth and make scones, young grasshopper!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking to this--I am **definitely** going to make it. Tomorrow, maybe.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Cheers!