Recipe - Christmas Scones

1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 One half cup Flour
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth cup Sugar
One half cup Butter
One half cup Dried cranberries, chopped
One fourth cup Sour cream
One fourth cup Orange juice
2 teaspoon Orange peel, grated

1. Preheat oven to 400øF. Grease large cookie sheet. In cup with fork, mix
cinnamon with 1 tbs of sugar; set aside.

2. In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, and One fourth cup sugar. With
pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir
in dried cranberries, sour cream, orange juice, and orange peel just until
ingredients are blended.

3. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; with floured rolling pin,
lightly roll dough to 1/2" thickness. Cut out scones with 3" star shape
cookie cutter. With pancake turner, place scones 2" apart on cookie sheet.
Press trimmings together; roll and cut as above. Sprinkle scones with
cinnamon mixture.

4. Bake scones 1012 minutes until golden. Serve scones warm.
Posted to EATL Digest 30 Nov 96

Recipe by: EatL

From: Betsy Burtis ebburtis@IX.NETCOM.COM

Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:17:40 0500