Marble scones - country cooking

8 scones

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 cups Unsiftcd all-purpose flour
⅓ cup Sugar
4 teaspoons Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Baking soda
⅔ cup Butter
1⅓ cup Buttermilk
2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
2 1-oz squares semisweet chocolate, melted

Directions

1. Heat oven to 425'F. Grease large baking sheet. In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut the butter in until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Remove 1¼ C flour mixture to medium-size bowl.

2. In small bowl, combine buttermilk and vanilla. In cup, combine ¼ C buttermilk mixture and the chocolate. Add remaining buttermilk mixture to remaining flour mixture in large bowl and mix lightly with fork until it clings together and forms a soft dough. Add chocolate mixture to the reserved 1 ¼ C flour mixture in medium-size bowl and stir with fork until it forms a soft dough.

3. Turn both doughs out onto lightly floured surface; divide chocolate dough into 6 pieces. Dot 3 chocolate pieces over surface of plain dough. Fold plain dough over and dot with remaining 3 pieces chocolate dough; knead 5 or 6 times to marbleize dough. Divide dough in half. With lightly floured rolling pin, roll one half of dough into a 7-inch round. Cut into 4 wedges. Repeat with remaining half of dough.

4. Place scones, 1 inch apart, on greased baking sheet. Pierce tops with tines of fork.

5. Bake scones 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Country Cooking/Summer/94 Scanned & fixed by Di and Gary

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