Farmer Boy's Pumpkin Recipes - Scones

I just love fall harvest time and all the great dishes that can be made from those harvests!  Here is a recipe that uses canned pumpkin, (which is much easier to use than fresh cut pumpkin!) but you can use fresh cut pumpkin, if you wish to go through all the trouble of peeling, cooking, mashing and straining!

Anyone who visited my B&B, when I had it open, will remember my fresh baked scones!  They were the highlight of the breakfast meal!  But those were blackberry scones, not pumpkin.  (Everyone went home with that recipe!)  I'll put the Blackberry Scone recipe on the blog soon, in case you didn't get it from me before.

Farmer Boy Pumpkin Scones

(This recipe makes 24 scones)

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 Cups of all-purpose flour
• 1/3 Cup of brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spices
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 Cup of butter (chilled and diced, to make it easier to mix)
• 1 large egg (beaten)
• 1/2 Cup of canned pumpkin
• 1/3 Cup of buttermilk

Glaze Ingredients:

• 3 Tablespoons of powdered sugar
• 1 - 2 Tablespoons of milk
• pinch of pumpkin pie spices (optional)

Directions: Pre heat the oven to 400 degrees F.  In a large bowl: combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, spices, baking soda, and salt.  Cut in the butter, till it resembles coarse oat meal.    In another bowl: combine the egg, pumpkin, and buttermilk.  Add this mixture to the dry mix.  Mix all till you have a loose, saturated dough.   Knead long enough to form a log, about 3 inches in diameter.  Divide the log into 2 equal logs.  Divide each log into 12 pieces.  Make a ball of each piece.  Slightly flatten each ball as you place them on an ungreased baking sheet.  Bake on center rack, 15 to 18 minutes, till a probe comes out clean and you have a light golden color.                        While they bake, mix the glazing ingredients in a small bowl.  As you take them out of the oven, brush each scone with the glaze.  Transfer them to a wire rack to cool.  They can be eaten as soon as they cool enough to eat without burning your tongue.  I know that will seem a very long time!  :)

Scones are easy to make and great to experiment with, using different added fruits.  Some suggestions for fruit to go in these would be: raisins, dried cranberries, or blueberries.  You might also like to add walnuts.  Chocolate chips or any other chips go good too!  They store easily in a plastic bag in the refrigerator and can be re-heated, wrapped in a paper towel, for a few seconds in the microwave.  Have a good time experimenting - remember: working in the kitchen should be fun!

Look for more Farmer Boy Pumpkin Recipes on my blog site.

If you make these, please let us all know, by leaving a comment here.  Thanks. The Old Man in the Bib Overalls