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Mary Burns’s Butterific Irish Scones

kgold mary burns scones apr 16

Ingredients:

  • 1 3/4 cups (about 8 ounces) all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup sugar, plus additional for sprinkling over tops
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) cold Kerrygold™ Pure Irish Butter,
  • cut into pieces
  • 1/3 cup raisins
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 1 large egg, plus additional beaten egg for brushing over tops

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 425° F
  2. Sift together flour, 1/4 cup sugar, baking powder and salt into large bowl
  3. Using fingertips or pastry blender, rub or cut butter into flour mixture to form coarse crumbs
  4. Add raisins
  5. Whisk together milk and 1 egg
  6. Make a well in the flour mixture; pour in milk mixture. Using fork, stir just until soft, moist dough is formed
  7. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface; gently knead 1 or 2 times to incorporate loose pieces
  8. of dough. (Do not over-knead)
  9. Pat dough to 1 1/2-inch thickness.
  10. Using well-floured 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter or bottom of a glass, cut out
  11. about 6 rounds.
  12. Place rounds on lightly-buttered baking sheet. Brush
  13. tops with additional beaten egg; sprinkle with additional sugar.
  14. Bake until golden brown and delicious, about 14 to 17 minutes, rotating pan
  15. halfway through baking for more even browning
  16. Serve warm with Kerrygold™ Irish Butter and jam

Makes about 6 servings (depending on hunger level and capacity for
sharing)
Note: These scones are more muffin-like in texture; dough will be moist
and wet, which ensures a tender texture.

http://kerrygoldusa.com/recipes/kerrygold-irish-scones

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Friday night Italian pizzas @flahavansoats

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No Friday would be complete without a seriously delicious pizza. Check out how easy these gorgeous pizzas are to re-create at home (using our very own Progress Oatlets), and you’ll be making your own Italian fakeaways every Friday night. Ciao! #FlahavansOats

Serves 2 pizza bases|Takes 15 mins

Ingredients:
For the Pizza Bases:
85g Progress Oats
1 large egg white
½ tsp salt
Optional – 1tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp onion powder, 1tbsp grated parmesan or 1tsp nutritional yeast
For the tomato topping:
400g tin chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
1 tsp honey
1 tsp sea salt flakes
Couple of grinds of black pepper

Method:
For the Pizza Bases:
Pre-heat the oven 200C
Combine the oats, egg white, salt and season in a high-speed blender and blitz for 2 minutes until completely blended.
Heat a small heavy based frying pan over a medium heat.
Add one tsp of vegetable oil.
Spread half the oat mixture over the pan and cook for 2 minutes until the mixture firms up.
Move the oat base onto a lined baking sheet and spread over the toppings and bake for 5 minutes until the pizza is cooked through

For the tomato topping:

Drain the tinned tomatoes through a sieve over a bowl, pressing with the back of a ladle until about most of the juice has drained.
Tip the sieved tomatoes into a bowl and stir in the tomato purée, herbs, sugar and plenty of salt and pepper.
Pour the tomato mix into a high-speed blender and blitz for 1 minute.