Discovery scones
Monday, May 09, 2022 | 420 Views |
Discovery scones
Once in a good while, a mistake in the kitchen might be for the greater good. One might actually make a discovery that’s worth making note of. What happened was, I went into the kitchen knowing full well that I was short of ingredients to whip up probably the most basic of meals. So my mind wasn’t settled and I didn’t take the greatest look around. I kind of just glanced, I saw one, two things and figured. Scones. There’s no store bought bread, there’s no Nutriday plain yoghurt so I couldn’t make my favourite SOS 2 ingredient dough to create any type of bread.
I had some inkomazi in the fridge for a minute and was honestly scared to look at the BB date. I thought I’ll just open it and see what we are working with. A scupu as well as a box. I got to bring the ingredients together in a bowl. I love how simple scones are; you don’t even have to get your hands dirty. I brought the small box out of the fridge, shook it and poured half a cup out as per instructions. Upon pouring the contents of the box out, I thought to myself with a slight tilt of the head. Ah, gompieno this inkomazi looks different. I decided it’s because it stayed too long in the fridge. It wasn’t giving me that sour milk, madila, butter milk thing. Seemed a bit thin. I carried on and greased my baking tin. I chose to use a cupcake tin to create 12 identical mini scones.
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