Great-Grandmother Duff Scones

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 tbs Crisco

1 cup buttermilk (probably use only 1/2 to 3/4 cup)

Cut in flour, Crisco, salt, baking soda, and baking powder together until well blended ('cut in' means to distribute solid fat throughout the dry ingredients using a pastry blender, fork, or 2 knives in a scissors motion). Add buttermilk slowly. Once balled up, knead dough about 10 times. Roll and smooth into large, round pancake. Flatten to about 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 8 pie wedges. Heat griddle to 400º F. Brown wedges on all sides and edges.

Notes:

These are poor Scottish scones my great-grandmother and her family cooked on a pan because they didn't have a proper kitchen with an oven. When she emigrated to the United States in 1911, she brought the recipe with her and taught it to my grandmother and then my mother.

I've written about my Great-Grandmother Sarah Duff in other blog posts because my family has stayed in close contact with our Scottish family because she stayed in close contact with her family in Ayrshire.

My family pronounces them "sc-ahns."

Ingredients.

Cutting in the dry ingredients.

The kneading hook on the blender.

The ball of dough after kneading.

At this point my uncle will put the dough

into a bowl and place the bowl into warm

water so that the ingredients will activate.

He said my great-grandmother taught him that.

Spreading flour on the roller.

Cutting the flattened dough into wedges.

Flour sprinkled onto the griddle.

Scones on the grill before browning.

Scones lightly browned.

Browning scones on all sides.