{"id":19631,"date":"2020-06-07T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=19631"},"modified":"2020-06-07T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T15:47:54","slug":"basic-scones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/basic-scones\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Scones"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Combine dry ingredients\n<ul>\n<li>2 C AP flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C oatmeal (pulsed in a blender)<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 C&nbsp; sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>Optional: 1\/4 C dried cranberries (chopped)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/scone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19635 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/scone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a>Stir to combine\n<ul>\n<li>2 sticks of cold butter cut into pieces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chop up 1 C pecans into fairly small pieces\n<ul>\n<li>Reserve about 2-3 TBL for topping<\/li>\n<li>Add remainder to flour mixture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mix wet ingredients\n<ul>\n<li>3\/4 C cream<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>Juice and zest from one lemon<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp maple extract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add wet to dry<\/li>\n<li>Stir to mix, but don&#8217;t overmix<\/li>\n<li>Should not be like a dough, but should be fairly coarse and crumbly<\/li>\n<li>Line a baking sheet with parchment paper<\/li>\n<li>Turn onto the baking sheet<\/li>\n<li>Press into a thick circular disk<\/li>\n<li>Cut into half, then quarters, then eighths<\/li>\n<li>Separate each by about 1\/2 inch or more<\/li>\n<li>350\u00ba for 20-25 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Let cool completely<\/li>\n<li>Prepare topping\n<ul>\n<li>1 1\/2 C Powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL melted butter<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL Nescafe instant coffee<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp almond extract<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Drizzle frosting on scones<\/li>\n<li>Top with some of the crushed pecans<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combine dry ingredients 2 C AP flour 1\/2 C oatmeal (pulsed in a blender) 1\/3 C&nbsp; sugar 2 TBL baking powder 1\/4 tsp salt Optional: 1\/4 C dried cranberries (chopped) Stir to combine 2 sticks of cold butter cut into pieces Chop up 1 C pecans into fairly small pieces Reserve about 2-3 TBL for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/basic-scones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Basic Scones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19636,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19631\/revisions\/19636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}