{"id":1088,"date":"2016-02-13T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2016-02-13T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T06:32:08","slug":"bread-of-the-month-filling-the-heart-with-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Bread of the Month: Filling the heart — with jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Heart wants what it wants, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 poet Emily Dickinson wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153– or else it does not care.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

[M]y heart, or at least the scones I made into hearts, wanted jam, and who was I to deny them? Scones and jam have gone together since the clocks could strike three and mean teatime. And if a scone can have jam baked in it, thus skipping the step of jam-spreading and go straight to the eating, all the better.<\/p>\n

\"image_3\"<\/a>When I saw this yummy-looking and unusual take on scones, I thought of the Queen of Hearts… who baked some tarts. These scones just looked like the kind the Queen would have baked and a knave would be tempted to steal. Delicate, buttery scones with the addition of aromatic rosemary and a glistening center of strawberry preserves. Mmmm.<\/p>\n

Having made this recipe a few times, I decided to change it up a bit. Instead of making the lemon glaze as directed, I put the citrus in the scone by adding the zest of one lemon to the dry ingredients along with the chopped rosemary. <\/p>\n

\"image_4\"<\/a>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun and playful to make foods into heart shapes…I find myself smiling as I press a heart cutter deep into some rich dough, be it cookie, biscuit or scone. The intention is always a positive one, even if there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily an intended. <\/p>\n

And to ready these scones for jam, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost as fun pressing the back of a measuring spoon into each heart, giving it a a little \u00e2\u20ac\u0153belly button\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to be filled. <\/p>\n

As I was passing on the glaze, I thought it would be pretty (and add some crunchy texture) to sprinkle the hearts with glittering sanding sugar. <\/p>\n

\"image_5\"<\/a>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised if these hearts expand in the oven (if you want to have the hearts hold better shape, you could add a little more flour or chill the hearts prior to baking). I decided to consider the spreading, growing hearts as symbolic…if the heart is not capable of expanding, then what hope is there for anything?<\/p>\n

You will not be disappointed with these. They are almost like a large soft cookie, but filled with the garden freshness of lemon and rosemary, and just a dab of ruby-jewel sweet.<\/p>\n

Strawberry and Rosemary Scones
\nAdapted from recipe by Giada De Laurentiis (www.foodnetwork.com)
\nMakes about 8 scones<\/p>\n

2 cups all-purpose flour plus more for dusting
\n1\/2 cup sugar
\n2 teaspoons baking powder
\nZest of one lemon
\n1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary leaves
\n1\/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
\n6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1\/2-inch pieces
\n1 cup heavy cream
\n1\/3 cup strawberry jam
\nWhite sparkling or sanding sugar
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\n\"image_6\"<\/a>Place an oven rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.<\/p>\n

In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest, rosemary, salt, and butter until the mixture resembles a coarse meal (this can also be done by hand using a pastry blender). <\/p>\n

Transfer the mixture to a medium bowl. Gradually stir in the cream until the mixture forms a dough. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a 1\/2-inch thick, 10-inch circle.<\/p>\n

Using a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out heart-shaped pieces of dough and put on the prepared baking sheet. Gently knead together any leftover pieces of dough and roll out to 1\/2-inch thick. Cut the dough into more heart shapes and add to the baking sheet. <\/p>\n

Using an index finger or a small, round measuring spoon, gently make an indentation in the center of each pastry heart. Spoon a heaped 1\/2 teaspoon of jam into each indentation. <\/p>\n

Sprinkle sparkling sugar over the top of each heart. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.<\/p>\n

Transfer the cooked scones onto a wire rack and cool for 30 minutes.
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Heart wants what it wants, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 poet Emily Dickinson wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153– or else it does not care.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [M]y heart, or at least the scones I made into hearts, wanted jam, and who was I to deny them? Scones and jam have gone together since the clocks could strike three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[49,170,168,202,61],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipe-box","category-uncategorized","tag-holiday","tag-jam","tag-lemon","tag-rosemary","tag-scones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}