Mixing Dry Ingredients for English Scones For A Tea Party

Video Transcript

"Now the first thing we're going to do to make our homemade scones is we're going to blend together the dry ingredients. We’re going to put, level off, two cups of just regular white flour. I often like to bake with different whole wheat or spelt flours but this really requires good old fashioned basics really. Add to that a third of a cup of sugar. We're going to put one tablespoon of baking powder and teaspoon of salt. Whisk those dry ingredients together. And now we're going to add to that, you'll always hear me talking about in baking to have your ingredients at room temperature. This is one time where we don't want it at room temperature actually. We want our butter to be very cold because we're going to cut it in to the flour. This is almost like making homemade pie crust and the idea with using the cold butter is that what's going to make it really flaky when the pastry cooks. The layers of butter, that's what's going to make it really nice and flaky and give that scone like texture. You can see I'm breaking the butter in there. That was three quarters of a stick. Just loosely put that in. Doesn’t need to be perfectly distributed because we're going to use this little tool to my right, a pastry cutter, to get it until its pea size. I'm going to keep on blending until we're at the right texture and I'll show you what that looks like. Alright, so after just a brief time of cutting you can see actually that the pieces of butter, the largest ones are no bigger than the size of a pea and the rest of them, of the butter, is in even smaller pieces. Now this is ready to add our wet ingredients. "