Foggy weather and scones

scone dough ready to be rolled and cut

What a difference a week makes....

Last week here in Kansas City, we dealt with sub-zero highs on a few days .... brutal, brutal cold for this area.  And today, as the morning begins, it's above freezing, and very very foggy with visibility only a couple hundred yards in my neighborhood.  This is the perfect weather for scones, and biscuits, and muffins.  

So today I'm making some scones.  It's a recipe I've tweaked just a bit from the original, but it comes from the book Baking With Julia.  This is a great book that showcases recipes that guests demonstrated on the PBS show Baking With Julia.  Julia Child and her guest chefs and bakers always had fun displaying some of their favorite foods, and some of these recipes are very easy to do.

I've taken the recipe for buttermilk scones from this book, and, as I said, I've tweaked it just a bit.  But essentially it's the same.  It's a very easy recipe that can be made in minutes.  It's very forgiving.  And the end result is very delicious and homestyle.  

But what I wanted to share today is something very easy to do with any scone.  The final flourish on this recipe is to brush the prepared dough with melted butter and then lightly sprinkle granulated sugar over the top, but I always add a little bit of large-crystal sugar as well.  This gives a wonderful mild sweetness to the top of the scone as well as a little bit of sweet crunch.

Simple enhancements like this add so much to any food.

Enjoy the foggy morning, and think sweet thoughts of the coming warm spring.