Cheesy scones

Doing lots of housework yesterday seems to have put me in domestic goodness mode as I feel to compelled to do lots of baking today. When I woke this morning, I decided I would bake another batch of Christmas Biscuits, make a plum crumble and whip up a batch of cheese scones on top of cooking the usual family roast. My enthusiasm started to wane once I got dressed, so I thought I might just try the cheese scones and see how we go. As the scone recipes doesn't use any eggs, I thought it
would make a great activity for L to get involved with and it wouldn't matter too much if some of the mixture found its way into her month. Plus she is really good at stirring!

We don't have any low surfaces in our kitchen or a proper dining table that we can cook at, so we decided the best place to make out scones would be on a our massive TV bench. I wiped down all the surfaces, prepared the baking tray, weighed out all the ingredients and put them in plastic dishes before getting L ready for some baking fun. We used this easy recipe from the BBC Food website.

I rubbed in the flour and butter before we got started as this can take a few minutes to do and I didn't want L getting bored and wondering off before we'd begun!

I tried to get her to pour the cheese and milk, but she was a little hesitant.




She really enjoyed the mixing bit! We had a spoon each, but she wanted to do all of it herself.

Next came the rather messy business of kneading and rolling out the dough and then cutting the shapes. She really loved getting her fingers stuck into the dough and pulling it apart. Some of it ended up in her mouth, probably because she could smell the yummy cheese! And Mama was happy that she got to, once again, use her bargain cookie cutters!

We then popped our shapes in the oven and 15 minutes later we had some delicious cheesey scones. 

After about 10 minutes of cooling on a wire rack, the scones were cool enough for some tasting. They seemed to get L's seal of approval!

I really enjoyed doing this with L. I talked her through each step and explained what we were doing and she seemed really interested in what was happening. It was also a good opportunity to start the habits of cleaning your hands before and after cooking, wiping down work surfaces and clearing away your dirty cooking utensils when you're finished. Grandma R ran a food business from home so doing these things is second nature to me and it's never to young to teach your little ones good food hygiene!