After today's clutter clean up....and knowing that dinner would be a bit late tonight...I decided to make a batch of scones...kind of as a snack to hold everyone over until dinner was ready.....
As I have been experimenting with Kefir milk....I thought I may as well give Kefir Scones a try.....and not having a recipe...I just substituted standard milk for Kefir milk in my recipe for plain scones.....
It goes like this....
Kefir Scones...
4 cups of Self Raising Flour
2 tablespoons of butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 - 2 cups of Kefir Milk...(start with 1 1/2 cups, adding more if needed.)
Set your oven to 200 degrees Celsius.....
Rub butter into flour and salt until a breadcrumb like consistency....
Using a wide-bladed knife...mix milk quickly into flour...and don't over mix.
Roll out and cut into scones....Glaze with extra milk
Place in oven until golden...usually 10 minutes
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| Always lay your scones like this... They will help each other rise.... |
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| Kefir Scones...Yum! |
I decided not to get any meat out of the freezer for dinner....we already had a 1kg bag of 'budget bacon' defrosted from yesterday that I hadn't used....and I had over 2 dozen eggs from the local egg farm......
so I decided to make an 'Egg and Bacon Pie'.......I did wonder how it would go, using no recipe, a sweet pastry...and not much else.....
Here is Nan's Pastry recipe...according to her writing....it makes enough pastry to do 4 tops and 4 bottoms....I assume she is talking about 'Apple Pies'.....a master at them Apple Pies; my Nan was.
Sweet Pastry for 4 tops & 4 bottoms
Here's the recipe as it is written on a little bit of paper......
1 full cup Plain Flour
2 full cups Self Raising Flour
1/4 lb marg
1 egg beaten well
1/2 cup sugar
add water to mix well, then roll out
(that's it)
So after rubbing the butter into the flours...I stirred the sugar through...then added a bit of water to the beaten egg and poured that over the mix....treating it like a scone mix...I blended it all together quickly...adding a little more water as needed.....wrapped it in cling wrap.....and popped it in the fridge......
Sweet Egg & Bacon Pie
For this huge baking dish...I used the following.......this will easily do us two meals...for five hungry adults.
18 eggs...well beaten
1 grated carrot
1 kg of budget bacon...rind removed then fried to remove remaining fat.
2 cups of frozen spinach....defrosted and chopped well...(put in hot water to defrost)
1 cup of home-made feta cheese ....crumbled
fresh chopped herbs......from the garden if you can
salt and pepper
Remove the pastry from the fridge after preparing all the fillings.....cut almost in half....the bigger half being for the base......
Roll out the larger piece of pastry and using the rolling pin; roll the pastry onto a very large well greased baking dish .....
Pour filling ingredients on top of pastry...
Roll out the smaller piece of pastry cut into strips....placing on top of filling....
Use an egg wash or Kefir Milk to glaze the pastry strips.....
In a moderate oven...bake until set....rotating every ten minutes or so....
If it wobbles in the centre; it's a sure sign it isn't cooked yet.
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| Sweet Egg and Bacon Pie |
I learn't a lot making these dishes today....I learn't that I CAN make Nan's pastry....so bring on the apples!
Best of all, I learn't that sweet pastry is OK to use on a savoury pie if you want to make your Nan's pastry recipe....
The eggs cost me $8.50 for the 2 1/2 dozen tray from the local egg farm...so $3.40 a dozen.....
Eggs $5.10
The budget bacon was a bargain at $5.00 for 1kg.
1 carrot .50c at a guess
No immediate cost for the following, as I already had them in stock...
- The frozen spinach was from the garden when I had heaps....
- Home-made feta ...I already had made in the fridge..so no immediate cost
- Flour and sugar....in my stockpile
- chopped herbs from the garden
- salt and pepper...in my cupboard
Total cost for the pie, not including
what I had in stock....$11.59
I think that's a pretty good meal,
considering it will serve
us 5 hungry adults...two big meals.
