Scottish Buttermilk Steel Cut Oat Scones - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup steel cut oats
    1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
    1/2 cup oat flour
    1/2 cup whole wheat flour
    1/4 cup unbleached white flour
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    1 teaspoon sugar
    2 teaspoons baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)
    1/3 cup dried currant
    butter (for greasing baking sheet)
    4 tablespoons butter, softened and cut into small pieces
    1 tablespoon milk
    cinnamon-sugar mixture, for topping
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
    Place the oats in a pie pan and toast them for 20 minutes, stirring often to toast evenly and not burn.
    Remove when slightly golden.
    Combine oats with buttermilk in a small bowl and let stand for 20 minutes.
    In a large bowl, combine the flours, baking soda, sugar, baking powder, salt and dried currants.
    Reset the oven to 400F degrees.
    Butter a baking sheet.
    Using a pastry blender, cut the 4 tablespoons butter into the flour until the texture is coarsely crumbled.
    Stir in the buttermilk/oat mixture until combined.
    Flour your hands and scoop up the dough, forming it into a ball. Do not overmix.
    Press the ball of dough directly into the pan, then press into a 3/4\" thick circle.
    With a sharp knife, score the surface, almost to the bottom, making eight wedges.
    Brush the surface with milk and sprinkle a bit of sugar and cinnamon on top.
    Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
    Cut into wedges.

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