Recipe - Oatmeal Cinnamon Scones

One fourth cup Oatmeal
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Three fourths cup Flour
6 tablespoon Butter, cut into 1/2inch
cubes
One fourth cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
One half cup Buttermilk OR:
One half cup Cream OR:
One half cup Milk
One fourth cup Brown sugar, packed
1 lg Egg, beaten
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder (dbl acting)
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1/8 teaspoon Grated orange zest

Position rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees. Into a
large bowl, sift the flour, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add oatmeal & mix together. Distribute the butter cubes over the flour
mixture. Using your fingertips, quickly rub the butter cutes into the flour
mixture, until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

In a medium bowl, stir together the buttermilk, egg, vanilla, & zest.

Add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture. With a large rubber spatula,
using as few strokes as possible, stir gently until the dough is moistened
and begins to cling together. Handling the dough as little as possible,
stir until all the ingredients are completely combined.

Using a 1/3c. measuring cup, drop the dough onto an ungreased baking
sheet, leaving at least 1inch between the scones. Bake 16 to 18 minutes,
until the scones are golden brown. Cool the scones on the baking sheet set
on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Using a mental spatula, transfer the scones
to the wire rack and cool completely. Serve warm or store completely cooled
scones in an airtight container at room temperature.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini