Recipe: cranberry scones

Ingredients

• 2 cups organic spelt flour
• ½ cup of rolled oats organic
• ½ cup organic light cane sugar
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• 6 tbsp. cold butter, diced
• 1 egg
• ½ cup buttermilk or plain yogurt
• _ cup dried cranberries

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 400°F (205°C)
• Grind rolled oats into powder in a food processor
• Place in a large bowl and add spelt flour, cane sugar, baking powder and baking soda
• Cut in the butter with a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside in bowl.
• In another bowl, beat egg. Add buttermilk (or yogurt) and mix well.
• Stir into flour mixture to moisten dry ingredients.
• Add cranberries and mix gently
• Shape dough into 8 balls and place on a cookie sheet
• Bake for 17 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 5 minutes and serve

This recipe is courtesy of La Milanaise