Scones with Feta and Herbs

I have a long history with scones, or at least with my attempts to make them. One day it’s simply stopped working for me. I was preparing a dough as always, adding some extras like fruits or cheese and they refused to look good. It tasted ok, but looked like flat cookies. There was a surprise, anger, frustration and refusal. Whenever I told anyone about my failures people didn’t want to believe. Yesterday I’ve been trying to make ones with raspberries and it went so wrong that I wanted to give up. Tomasz simply asked if it has happened again, and I had to admit that it’s impossible for me to make scones.

Today something has changed. I’ve decided to follow someone’s recipe step after step and – miracle – it did work out! Thank you Natalie for posting this recipe and making my day. I hope that my “scone’s bad lack“ ended with today’s victory.

You will need:

• 1 & ½ cup flour
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• pinch of salt
• pinch of pepper
• 110g cold butter
, cut in cubes
• ½ egg (the other half you use for brushing)
• 4 tbsp cold milk
• ½ cup greek yoghurt
• ½ cup feta cheese cut in small cubes
• 1 tbsp chives, chopped
• 1 tbsp thyme, chopped

Additionally:

• salt
• pepper
• powdered paprika
• ½ egg for brushing

Heat an oven to 180*C.

In a bowl mix dry ingredients and add cold butter cut in small cubes. Work it with your hands so butter will combine with dry ingredients. In another bowl mix ½ beaten egg, milk and yogurt. Make a hole in the middle of dry ingredients and add the wet ones. Mix only so the ingredients will combine, very delicately. Add feta and herbs and disturb them evenly in a dough. But don’t kneed it.

Flatten the dough so it’s 1 cm thick and cut circles with a glass or a cutter.

Brush each scone with an egg and sprinkle with salt, pepper and powdered paprika.

Bake for about 15 minutes.

Enjoy, Marta