Try Mama's Scones this year for Christmas Morning!

SCONES

3 cups flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1//2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter (cut in small pieces)

Mix all dry ingredients and cut butter into them using 2 knives or pastry blender
Make a well in the center and add 1 cup of buttermilk*
Mix all together and add one of the following:
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup raisins, currents or any chopped dried fruit you desire (dried apricots)
Sprinkle pastry board with flour and pat out dough 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick
Cut out scones with a 2 inch biscuit cutter**
Dip a sugar cube into a small amount of orange juice
Immediately press in the center of the scones one at a time.
Brush top of each scone with milk
Bake in lower rack til golden brown

* substitute for buttermilk-- Add one Tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar to 1 cup of milk

**You may use larger cutter but you wil have fewer scones-- if you use a smaller cutter just use half of a sugar cube on each one.



FAUX CLOTTED CREAM

Whip small carton heavy cream
add 1- 2 Tablespoons of powdered sugar
1/3 cup sour cream fold it in
refrigerate
(will freeze)

Serve with dollops of clotted cream, lemon curd and strawberry preserves. YUMMMMM!