Cold day, warm scone

After teasing us with Spring, Mother Nature has brought Winter back to Maine with new found gusto. -10 brrrrr. To help get me through until Spring I've turned to baked goods.

Cinnamon Scone Recipe
2 cups flour
4 Tbsp cold butter chopped into small pieces
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 egg
3/4 cup milk or cream
1 tsp vanilla

Glaze
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 Tbsp maple syrup



Mix dry ingredients together and blend in butter with a pastry blender
Lightly beat egg and mix in vanilla and milk
Add wet ingredients to dry
Cook at 400 degrees for 15 minutes until golden brown on the bottom
Mix glaze ingredients together and drizzle over warm scones

Bread

Jan and I have been developing some new organic baking accessories (still in the beginning stages) but I've been baking bread to test things out. (I know it's a tough job) We ate this loaf with some arugula, fresh tomatoes, organic olive oil with herbs, and Camembert cheese. I just love getting cheese from the Orono Farmer's Market. I'm a little addicted really.

Baking outside

Lately it has been hot and humid here in Maine and it has put a serious damper on any baking being done around Madder root. Jan and I both love to make bread and the occasional gooey treat for work. But with all this heat neither one of us wants to make our houses even hotter. Andy and I have been looking into making an outdoor oven and that led me to stumble upon a great new blog. Breadhunter's blog is written by a fellow Mainer and I'm even more inspired to get an outdoor oven going after looking at his blog. He'll also be teaching a workshop on outdoor ovens at the kneading conference that is coming up the end of this month. Although I won't be able to attend I am hoping to go to the free bread fair that follows up the conference on Saturday July 31st. And hopefully I start working on an outdoor oven soon.