Лиза Клейпас - Chasing Cassandra

Ingredients

1 3/4 cup flour

1/4 cup corn starch

1/2 tsp. salt

3 tsp. baking powder

1 stick butter, cold and chopped into dice sized pieces

3/4 cup whole milk

A little half and half or cream for brushing over the scones

Directions

Preheat oven to 425.

Mix the dry ingredients with a whisk or fork. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or a fork, mashing and mixing until it’s all crumbs. Pour in the milk and gently mix until it’s a big ball.

Sprinkle the dough with flour, sprinkle a rolling pin and cutting board/mat with more flour, and roll to 1/2 inch thickness. (Tip: The less you touch, mash and fool with the dough, the more tender the scones will be.) Use a small biscuit cutter (mine’s about 2 inches) to cut little circles, and put them on a nonstick cookie sheet or pan (I like to cover mine with parchment)

Use a pastry brush to brush half and half over the top of each scone.

Bake for 12 minutes. (This is where you have to use your judgement—if they’re not nicely golden brown, keep them in another couple of minutes)

Serve with butter, jam, honey, clotted cream, whatever you want to put on a perfect little scone!

About the Author

LISA KLEYPASgraduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She is a RITA ®Award-winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women’s fiction. Her novels are published in twenty-eight different languages and are bestsellers all over the world. She lives in Washington State with her husband, Gregory, and their two children.

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By Lisa Kleypas

Chasing Cassandra

Devil’s Daughter

Hello Stranger

Devil in Spring

Marrying Winterborne

Cold-Hearted Rake

Scandal in Spring

Devil in Winter

It Happened One Autumn

Secrets of a Summer Night

Again the Magic

Where’s My Hero?(with Kinley McGregor and Julia Quinn)

Worth Any Price

When Strangers Marry

Lady Sophia’s Lover

Suddenly You

Where Dreams Begin

Someone to Watch Over Me

Stranger in My Arms

Because You’re Mine

Somewhere I’ll Find You

Three Weddings and a Kiss(with Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Catherine Anderson, and Loretta Chase)

Prince of Dreams

Midnight Angel

Dreaming of You

Then Came You

Only With Your Love

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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