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Apr 1, 2022
2 min

How to Make Quick Sourdough Golden Raisin Scones With Your Discard

When you need to feed your starter and also want a quick treat, opt for these easy sourdough scones. Making and baking them is a quick, rather than all-day project. The sourdough discard gives the scones lightness, moisture, and extra flavor. The scones turn out puffy, slightly sweet, and I think better than the traditional biscuit-type scones. The sourdough scones are subtly flavored with cinnamon and orange zest as well as golden raisins and need no jam or extra butter

Mar 14, 2022
2 min

What to Make for an Easy, Cheap Weeknight Dinner? Ham and Cheese Scones

These scones are meat stretchers! They are almost meals in themselves, replete with whole grains, cheese, ham, and green onions. Nonetheless, the scones are best, I think, with soup and/or a green salad. Think of the scones as rich, tasty sandwich replacements. If you have any scones left over, they make a great, quick breakfast with coffee. I take a couple of scones out of the refrigerator and put them in the air fryer for a few minutes to warm and crisp them for breakf

Mar 1, 2022
2 min

How to Use Your Discard to Make Sourdough Honey, Date, and Chocolate Chip Scones or Buns

These simple scones or buns are one of my favorite ways of using my sourdough discard. The scones/buns bake up soft and light and have the natural sweetness of honey and dates. Because the scones/buns include baking powder, you can bake them immediately if you'd like. I usually let my wet discard batter sit for a couple of hours before adding in the remaining ingredients (to let the sourdough flavor develop a bit more), but it really isn't necessary. I also like to add ch

Dec 3, 2021
2 min

How to Make Sourdough Christmas Scones With Your Discard

Sourdough Christmas Scones are filled with all sorts of good things, and, because they use baking powder as the primary leavener, they don't require a rise time. Yes, the scones do use up some of your sourdough discard, and yes, they are a bit more "yeasty" and lighter than regular scones. Nonetheless, the Christmas scones are closer to traditional scones than to sourdough bread. The scones get texture from oats and are studded with dried cranberries, dried orange pieces,

Mar 15, 2019
2 min

Saturday Treat: Simple Almond Scones

These Almond Scones are a favorite Saturday breakfast treat because they are quick, easy, and taste really good. The scones are relatively inexpensive to make--far less than the ones you'll find in coffee houses--and, as they bake, they'll send enticing aromas through your home. No, the scones aren't health food, but they are far better for you than the ones you'll find in the coffee houses and grocery stores. The almond scones mix up in just a few minutes, and, if you hav

Dec 24, 2018
6 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 24

Spinach-Pomegranate Salad Italian Wedding Soup Sweet Potato Scones Amaretti Cake with Raspberry Sherbet Many of you probably have foods that you “must have” on Christmas Eve. Making Italian wedding soup is a tradition in my house, but it isn’t a family practice. My mom always fixed oyster stew for Christmas Eve. I hated it. The stew featured strange-looking alien things (the oysters) submerged in milk with butter blobs and crumbled saltines on top (apparently to hide the

Dec 20, 2018
2 min

Have Sourdough Discard? Make Christmas Scones

Dec 6, 2018
2 min

Happy St. Nick's Day! Make Blueberry Scones

Happy St. Nicholas Day! The feast day has been largely forgotten here in the United States, but it's celebrated in many parts of Europe, especially German-speaking areas. Traditionally, children receive small treats of candy and/or cookies, often in their shoes or socks. According to some authorities, children sometimes receive oranges and chocolate coins to represent St. Nicholas’s rescue, as legend has it, of three impoverished girls by paying their marriage dowries with

Sep 17, 2018
2 min

Monday Sourdough: Cinnamon-Raisin Scones

Today's recipe is simple, fast, and perfect for using up the sourdough discard you may have from feeding your sourdough starter. Cinnamon-raisin scones are a little sweeter than biscuits, but have much the same texture, because the scones get their leavening primarily from baking powder rather than the yeast in the sourdough discard. That means you can make and eat them in about half an hour--no long wait for the yeast to do its thing. Nonetheless, the scones have a pleasa

Jul 11, 2018
2 min

No Wheat Flour, Low Sugar Banana Oat Cakes

This is another of those recipes that uses up the bananas that have been abandoned on your counter. You know the ones--those with the brown spots and the slightly squishy texture that no one will condescend to put on their cereal or in their lunch bag. Rather than tossing out the bananas, how about turning them into Banana Oat Cakes? As they ripen and develop spots and softness, bananas also turn quite sweet. You can harness that sweetness to cut back on the refined sugar

Jun 11, 2018
2 min

Sourdough Discard Scones: Honey, Date, and Chocolate Chip

Discard day comes frequently at my house, and scones are one of my favorite ways to deal with the bubbly excess from my starters. Although I sometimes make scones with no baking powder or soda added (or try to, with mixed results), I do occasionally resort to baking powder and/or soda to get a scone that's more traditional and biscuit-like. The recipe below for honey, date, and chocolate chip sourdough scones falls into that category. I used a rye-based starter for my disc

Mar 27, 2018
2 min

Sourdough Discard Recipe: Golden Raisin Scones

I fed my starters again, so I had a significant amount of discard to use. That was fine. Incorporated into my scone recipe, the discard gave my scones lightness, moisture, and extra flavor. The discard scones turned out puffy, slightly sweet, and I think better than the traditional biscuit-type scones. These discard scones are subtly flavored with cinnamon and orange zest as well as golden raisins and need no jam or extra butter to make them moist. They are perfect "as i

Mar 19, 2018
2 min

What to Do With Sourdough Discard? Make Scones!

I just can't bring my self to throw out the sourdough discard. It seems too wasteful! So, I routinely have a lot--and I mean a lot!--of discard to use up. I've made all sorts of things with the discard. Sometimes I feed the discard first, and sometimes I don't. Either way, I have plenty to spare, and scones are one of my favorite ways to use some of the discard. The sweetly-spiced scones will not be biscuit-like, as traditional scones are, but they will be tender, moist

Oct 9, 2017
2 min

Better than Coffee House Almond Scones

The coffee house scones look good but don't always taste that great. They also are incredibly expensive. A cup of coffee and a scone will set you back about as much as a full meal in some cases. Moreover, the fat, sugar, and calorie count in those coffee house scones many times will be more than you should have in a full meal. So what's the alternative? How about some simple almond scones that you can mix up quickly and easily at home? I wouldn't go so far as to say the

Sep 28, 2017
2 min

Instead of Sandwiches: Ham and Cheese Scones

These scones are almost meals in themselves, replete with whole grains, cheese, ham, and green onions. The scones are fantastic with soup and make rich, tasty sandwich replacements. Bake the scones ahead, and you’ll have a quick breakfast with coffee. I take a couple of scones out of the refrigerator and put them in the toaster to warm and crisp them for breakfast, but you also could zap them for 10 seconds in the microwave. Ham and Cheese Scones – Makes 8+ 1 cup of flour

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