Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Meek abundance

Having bought too much clotted cream for the family dinner on Saturday I was left with a spare pot, and what can you do then except make scones?

I've always used Delia's recipe but they've never been brilliant. Last time I tried Mary Berry's but they weren't amazing either. So this time I gave Paul Hollywood a try. He uses strong bread flour unusually.

The recipe said makes eleven but as I was making them for Zac's I decided to double up, and ended up with an awful lot of large scones!



Not enough cream for more so some were butter-and-jammed, and I'm still left with a boxful, which I'll donate to the friendship group that meets in church this afternoon.

Good scones though. I'll use this recipe again.

Zac's went fine, the only problem being with our swanky new gender neutral toilet. The sensor light in it only comes on if someone stomps about in the room above.

As we were looking at meekness, I read this poem by Stewart Henderson.

Many years ago Sean had funding to commission different artists to create pieces based on the beatitudes. All except this one were paintings or sculptures. The rest are all in storage at the moment.



8 comments:

Marie Smith said...

The scones look delicious!

Boud said...

Those scones look good. I'd be happy with butter and jam. Can't read the poem though.

Boud said...

I tried a different way and thank you, I could read it after all. A bit overwrought to my taste.

jabblog said...

Very tempting scones.

Kathy G said...

Scones are only an occasional treat for me, but I'd definitely break that rule to try yours!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Well, Paul Hollywood is kind of known as the King of Bread, so I'm not surprized that his scone recipe is worthy. They look yummy!

acorn hollow said...

those scones look delicious what a treat.
Cathy

Ann said...

The scones do look good