Home Baking--Just Like Home!

For some reason, I have been doing a lot of baking this fall. It makes the place seem more like home, I suppose. Besides I have to take some home baking to work on Tuesdays for Donna's tea time! My oat scones get the best reviews.

Oat Scones

1 3/4 C flour
1/3 C sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 C butter
3/4 C oats
1/3 dried cranberries or chocolate chips
lemon or orange zest
2/3 C buttermilk

Mix dry ingredients, oats and zest. Cut in butter until coarse crumbs. Add cranberries or chocolate chips (Or both if you dare!) Add butter mild and stir until everything is moist. Pat into a rectangle or a circle and cut into pieces. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

I made a date loaf last weekend that was pretty good. Full of local dates and walnuts.

Date Nut Loaf

1/2 C chopped dates
1/2 C sugar
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 C boiling water
1 1/4 C flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 large egg, fork beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 C walnuts
Combine first 4 ingredients . Stir and let stand until cool. Add flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Stir. Stir in egg, vanilla and walnuts. Turn into greased 7 3/4x33/4x21/8 inch loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes.
This recipe is from the Company's Coming Cooking for Two cookbook.

And of course Dave's famous Maritime Brown Bread, mixed up in the bread maker.