RECIPE: At my friend's beach house this morning and am making these: REC: Peppered Pear & Goat Cheese Scones

RECIPE:
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heather_in_sf

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Peppered Pear and Goat Cheese Scones

2 c flour

1 1/2 t baking powder

2 T sugar

1 1/4 t salt

1 t/4 t freshly cracked black pepper

1/2 c stick cold unsalted butter, diced

1 medium pear, peeled-seeded-cored-roughly chopped

4 oz soft goat cheese, broken into walnut sized pieces

1/2 c whole or low fat yogurt

2 T whole milk + more for brushing on scones

Oven at 375.

In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and pepper. Add butter and blend until butter is in small pea sized pieces. Sprinkle in pear and goat cheese pieces and gently toss together. Try not to break up the goat cheese too much.

Add milk to the yogurt and stir to loosen yogurt. Pour into flour mixture and gently fold in. The dough may look slightly dry and crumbly but the baked scone will be moist.

Divide the dough into 6 pieces and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment or a silpat. Brush tops of scones with milk.

Bake until lightly browned, ~35 minutes.

Makes 6 scones

From Culture Magazine (a great publication all about cheese, Gromit!)

 
This was nice and moist, I did add more milk, another 2 T as the weather here has been

really cold and dryer than usual, which effects the humidity in the flour. When my hair starts to fly about with static I know my baking needs adjustment for humidity. When I was in the high desert in Santa Fe I had to double the liquid in pie crust, which was shocking but it came out perfectly! The pears and the cheese and the butter really made for a luscious buttery scone. There's one left, late night kitchen raid?? Hee hee

 
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