{"id":2316,"date":"2019-07-28T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2019-07-28T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T15:30:55","slug":"scone-of-the-month-feeling-just-peachy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"Scone of the Month: Feeling just peachy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of my favorite desserts is cobbler, specifically peach\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the cobbler of my childhood, made by my mother, with what I feel is the true \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cobble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of cobbler \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a constellation of thick biscuity dough scattered over a pan of hot, stewed fresh peaches, oozing with warm juices and dotted with butter. Eating it freshly baked or even the cold leftovers I would carve into from the fridge fulfilled all my youthful sweets desires, and I was left sad and longing when the last serving was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]hat flavor combo memory of buttery biscuit meeting sweet, ripe peach is one that stays vivid, particularly in the summertime when stone fruits are peaking and begging to be baked into something. So when I stumbled across a scone recipe from King Arthur Flour \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Tender Peach Scones, where drop scones are studded with chopped fresh peaches (recipe at https:\/\/www.kingarthurflour.com\/recipes\/tender-peach-scones-recipe<\/a>), I signed on for a baking session with no hesitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[M]y local farmers market is resplendent with stone fruit right now \u00e2\u20ac\u201d nectarines, plums, apricots, pluots \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and any of them would have likely worked as the fruit in this recipe, but I stuck with the instructions (and my longing for peach cobbler) and picked up some cling and yellow peaches. The yellow were deeply golden traced with red and very juicy\/tender, while the cling were a softer yellow, firm and more tart. I mixed them here for a range of flavor for the scones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]his scone dough is easy to assemble, following the traditional method of cutting cold butter cubes into dry ingredients (flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and a little cinnamon and nutmeg) until the butter is distributed in small, grainy pieces throughout. Here I put my own twist on the recipe, adding the fine zest of one lemon to this dry mixture).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]he wet ingredients for the scone are vanilla yogurt, eggs and both almond and vanilla extracts \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all are whisked together and added to the dry ingredients, and the dough is lightly mixed until it is just barely cohesive and a tad crumbly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]he chopped peaches are gently folded in, adding a wee bit more moisture and flashes of gold to this rich dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[O]ne of the beautiful (and easing) aspects of this recipe is that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shaping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the scones comes from an ice cream scoop, eliminating the need for a floured board and extra implements to roll and cut them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[I] got eight beautiful mounds of scone on my sheet, and finished them with a sprinkling of crunchy, sparkly sanding sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]hese scones bloomed up beautifully and held their shape during the baking time (about 20 minutes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[T]his time, biscuits (scones) are cobbled with peaches, and that golden summer taste of the two meeting brought me somewhere near my peach cobbler past. The scones were beautifully tender, crusty yet moist and nicely flavored with the vanilla, almond, nutmeg and cinnamon. The chunks of peach, enough for every bite, offered an inside-out cobbler in the form of a scone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note; For the recipe, go to https:\/\/www.kingarthurflour.com\/recipes\/tender-peach-scones-recipe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite desserts is cobbler, specifically peach\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the cobbler of my childhood, made by my mother, with what I feel is the true \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cobble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of cobbler \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a constellation of thick biscuity dough scattered over a pan of hot, stewed fresh peaches, oozing with warm juices and dotted with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[340,57,72,362,61],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oantry","category-recipe-box","category-uncategorized","tag-almond","tag-bread","tag-cinnamon","tag-peaches","tag-scones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womansconed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}