Categories: breakfast

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup high fat butter, cut into chunks, plus more for greasing the pan
• 2 cups mellow pastry blend flour (see note), or 1 cup pastry flour and 1 cup
• all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup heavy cream, preferably not ultra-pasteurized
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with butter. In

2. the bowl of a food processor, pulse the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt

3. until combined. Add the butter and blend until crumbly.

4. In a small bowl, lightly whisk together the egg and cream, and then add

5. all but 1 tablespoon of it to the flour-butter mixture. Pulse several times

6. until a dough starts to form. Add the cranberries and pulse once. Turn the

7. dough onto a floured surface and form into a ball. Using a rolling pin, roll

8. it into an 8-inch circle and cut into 8 wedges. Brush the remaining

9. tablespoon of the egg-cream mixture over the scones. Bake until golden,

10. about 25 minutes. Makes 8 scones.

11. Adapted from Animal Farm in Orwell, Vt.

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