Onto the baking......

Well as I said I love cooking and baking especially.


At my recent kitchen tea I received a fantastic gift - 'The Aunt Daisy Cookbook'.  Usually I wouldn't buy a cookbook that didn't have heaps of pictures of the recipe's, however after having a look through this particular receipe book I couldn't help but be intrigued by some of the old fashioned recipe's and this prompted me to start making my way through the recipe's of this book and giving my two cents worth on each.

Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Taylor) was a radio presenter in the 1930's to 1950's - well known for her early morning greeting:

Good morning, good morning, everybody!

Way before my time obviously but both my mother and our family friend remember her with fond memories.  You can read a little more about her here.

So anyway I thought I would start with some basic, well known recipe's while I was on my honeymoon.  The first request from my husband being Scones!  This recipe only has 5 ingredients and is just so easy to do!

225gm of flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

4 level teaspoons of baking powder

2 tablespoons of butter

2/3 cup of milk

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.  Rub in butter until like crumbs (this is the fun part!).

Make a well and pour in milk - I decided not to use the whole amount of milk in the end as I thought the mixture would be too wet.  Mix quickly with a knife.  Knead very lightly for about half a minute (definitely take this advice or your scones can turn out very heavy and cake-like).  Pat or roll lightly and cut to desired size.  

I made 6 small scones out of this batter.  A perfect sized recipe for just the two of us.

My husband got into the spirit and whipped us up some cream to go with our lovely raspberry jam.

And he just about ate them all before I had the chance to photograph them.....see the sneaky fingers creeping in!