Multi-Grain Scones

February 25th, 2010 by Dionna | 4 Comments
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We had a co-op class with our friend Acacia this week, and she made scones to share. They were delicious and I demanded the recipe. Thank you, Acacia, I am so excited to try these! I will add a picture after Kieran and I get a chance to make these this week.

The recipe is from The Healthy Kitchen by Andrew Weil, M.D., and Rosie Dahl.

Ingredients

1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
5 tbsp grapeseed or expeller-pressed canola oil
1/8 tsp lemon zest
1/2 c upoatmeal (not instant)
1/4 cup wheat bran
1 1/2 cup unbleached white flour
2 tbsp millet
2 tbsp poppy seed (Acacia sub’d sunflower seeds, which were delicious)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup milk

Directions

*Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
*Whisk the egg, sugar and oil together in a bowl.
*Mix the lemon zest and all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and stir witha wooden spoon until all of them are evenly dispersed throughout.
*Slowly add the dry ingredients into the egg, sugar and oil, and mix to create a thick dough.
*Add the milk and mix well.
*Lightly grease a baking pan.
*Scoop up tablespoonfuls of the dough and drop them one by one in mounds onto the baking pan, leaving 2 inches of space between. You should have 10 scones.
*Bake for 15-20 minutes, just until the crust is barely golden brown and the dough is dry.
*Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes.

The book has a recipe for a Zesty Lemon Topping, but Acacia has never made it. The scones we ate were scrumptious without a topping.

3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
With a fork mix the Lemon Topping ingredients until the sugar is completely melded in.  Drizzle 1 tablespoon over each scone.

*Acacia said that she usually uses succanat instead of sugar and some other seed or nut in place of poppy seeds.  She also has done half unbleached white flour and half whole wheat pastry flour with a little wheat germ and a couple tablespoons ground flaxseed.
*The book also notes that the recipe will work dairy-free by substituting soy milk for the cow’s milk.

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4 Responses to:
"Multi-Grain Scones"

  1. Sarah   
    Feb-26-10 at 10:08 am

    How do you think it’d be if I subbed out all the white flour? I don’t think my body likes white flour so I’ve quit using it in things I bake mostly for me to eat. Also, what about using golden flax instead of the poppy/sunflower seeds?

    On a side note, instead of egg you could use a Tbsp of flax meal with 2 Tbsp water!

  2. Tara @ Go Green St.   
    Feb-26-10 at 10:31 am

    This sounds really good. I bet my girls would enjoy making these.

  3. Dionna   
    Feb-26-10 at 10:51 am

    I think flax would be just fine instead of the seeds! And I’m really not sure about subbing for all of the white flour. I’ve had mixed results when I do that. Pizza dough has been fine with all wheat, cookies – not so much. It’s worth a shot – maybe halve the recipe and try? Be sure to let me know!

  4. megan
    Mar-7-10 at 1:43 pm

    Sarah – I never use white flour, I use whole wheat pastry flour for everything but our bread and pizza dough(1/2 wwpf and 1/2 ww hard winter red wheat flour). It works great, the texture is awesome, just watch your liquids, most of the time you don’t need quite as much. I will try and make these today, I was going to make pumpkin scones, but this will be something new. Thanks for sharing!!

    wwpf works awesome in cookies!!

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