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Sourdough Recipe: Sourdough Scones

Making Sourdough scones is one of my favorite ways to use up extra sourdough starter. I mean, if you’re doing it right, your starter spends its days growing and how can you keep up?

This Sourdough scone recipe will help keep the starter in check. And it’s a great, easy and quick recipe.

First, go ahead and preheat the oven to 400 degrees. You want a nice hot oven for your scones.

Mix together:
2 cups of flour
1/2 ts of salt
1 ts baking powder
1 ts baking soda
2 Tb sugar

Scone shapesOnce these dry ingredients are mixed together, add 6 Tablespoons of cold butter to the bowl. Cut the butter into small pieces before you add it. With your hands or a pastry blender, mix the butter into the flour mixture. Think of it a rubbing the butter into the flour. What you want, after a few minutes of blending, is what feel like lots of small peas in a granular mixture. Those are little clumps of butter. Don’t stress over this. You just don’t want a bunch of big glops of butter in your mixture.

Take a fork and make a small indentation in the middle of the bowl. Pour in about 1 and a quarter cups of sourdough starter. Use the fork to mix the starter and the flour/butter mixture together. Your dough will be dry and that’s what you want.

Turn it out on to a lightly floured counter top. You will knead it just a few times, adding a little bit of flour to keep the dough from sticking to your hands and the counter top. You don’t want to knead and handle it much. This isn’t a regular loaf of bread. Quick breads need gentle handling or they get tough and thick.

Pat the dough out into a roughly circular shape. Grab your scraper and divide the dough into equal wedges. You can choose to make the scones into biscuit shapes instead. I usually prefer the simple, traditional wedges for scones.It depends on what I’m using the scones for.

scones in the ovenPut the wedges or biscuits on a baking sheet or in a loose circle on a pizza pan. You don’t need to grease the pan much. The butter in the scones will take care of keeping the scones from sticking, but it’s better to be safe, so a simple, light coat of butter or non-stick cooking spray is all you need. The scones only cook for about 15 minutes.

Take them out of the oven and crack one open as soon as you can handle it; as soon as it cools a bit. Cover it with butter, and enjoy! Or serve with breakfast or save them as a compliment for a hearty dinnertime soup.

You can jazz this recipe up by adding cooked sausage, or cheese, or bacon during the mixing phase. Yum!

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