Linda's Scones Recipe

Blend together:
3 cups all purpose flour,
6 tsp baking powder,
1 trp salt,
1/2 - 2/3 cup granulated sugar.

Cut in, or use a food processor, 1 cup hard margarine or butter until mixture resembles coarse meal with some larger pieces. Add 1 cup milk and stir only until the dough holds together. Turn out onto a smooth, floured surface and form into a ball. Flatten ball, with hands or a rolling pin, to about ¾” thickness. Cut out rounds using a cookie cutter or a glass dipped in flour. Re-use the scrap edges. Place on a cookie sheet dusted with flour and dust tops of the scones with flour. Bake at 400 degrees F until golden brown on top and bottom. Cool on a wire rack.

Martin's Fruit Fool

2 cups mashed fruit
1 cup whipping cream
3 tbsp sugar.

Select your fruit: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or chilled stewed rhubarb. It can be fresh but the texture is better if you use frozen fruit (thus you can serve this year-round).  Defrost it until it is firm but not icy. Whip the whipping cream with the sugar until it is very stiff. Fold the fruit into the cream. Serves 6-8.

Baked Eggs

Butter individual ovenproof gratin dishes. Cover the bottom of each dish with a generous layer of grated cheese, such as a mixture of 2/3 aged cheddar and 1/3 gruyere. Make a slight well shape for each egg yolk – I use 2 large eggs (room temperature) and carefully slide in the egg letting the white run freely over the cheese.

Arrange the remaining ingredients around the yolks and over the egg-white if desired - I usually use a good, thin slice of ham draped into a mound, one or two spears of cooked asparagus and one or two slices of roma tomato topped with a few slivers of green pepper. Sprinkle the yolks with freshly ground pepper and a bit of salt and pour approx. 1 tsp of whipping cream over each yolk. Sprinkle the entire dish with more cheese mixture and bake in a shallow tray of water until the whites have set and the yolks are of a desired firmness (350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes).

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