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Scone recipe with just three ingredients sends 92-year-old baker Muriel Halsted viral

21 comments

  1. [18]
    tomf
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    Here's a formatted recipe for anyone interested Muriel's scone recipe Ingredients 5C Self-Rising Flour (plus a little for dusting) Pinch of Salt 300ml Heavy Cream (Cold) 300ml Lemonade A little...

    Here's a formatted recipe for anyone interested

    Muriel's scone recipe

    Ingredients

    • 5C Self-Rising Flour (plus a little for dusting)
    • Pinch of Salt
    • 300ml Heavy Cream (Cold)
    • 300ml Lemonade
    • A little milk (for brushing)

    Method

    1. Set your oven to 220 degrees
    2. Measure out five cups of self-raising flour, then sift three times
    3. Add a pinch of salt as you sift the flour
    4. Fold in 300ml of cold cream
    5. Add 300ml of lemonade
    6. Keep folding the mixture together until the flour is all mixed in
    7. Put onto a floured board, cut into desired sizes and brush with milk
    8. Pop them into the oven for ten minutes or until golden brown, turning the tray once during cooking
    9. Enjoy with butter, jam, cream, or whatever you like!
    10 votes
    1. [4]
      joplin
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      Serious question - is self-rising flour just flour with baking soda in it? Is it the same thing as Bisquick? I have been unable to find anything named self-rising flour in US grocery stores.

      Serious question - is self-rising flour just flour with baking soda in it? Is it the same thing as Bisquick? I have been unable to find anything named self-rising flour in US grocery stores.

      2 votes
      1. [2]
        DrStone
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        Based on the King Arthur Flour and Bobs Red Mill "recipes" for self-rising flour, both list: 1 cup AP flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt Bisquick has quite a few more ingredients

        Based on the King Arthur Flour and Bobs Red Mill "recipes" for self-rising flour, both list:

        • 1 cup AP flour
        • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
        • 1/4 tsp salt

        Bisquick has quite a few more ingredients

        3 votes
        1. joplin
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          Thanks!We do have Bobs Red Mill brand products in our stores, so maybe I've just missed it. I'm surprised Bisquick has oil in it, but there you have it.

          Thanks!We do have Bobs Red Mill brand products in our stores, so maybe I've just missed it. I'm surprised Bisquick has oil in it, but there you have it.

          2 votes
      2. tomf
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        haha. my comment is pretty much word for word @DrStone's comment :)

        close! For ever 1C AP Flour use 1 1/2 t baking powder and 1/2t salt. I think King Arthur, Bobs, and some others make it -- but there isn't really a reason to buy it when you can whip it together in seconds.

        haha. my comment is pretty much word for word @DrStone's comment :)

        2 votes
    2. [4]
      wundumguy
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      I count more than three ingredients

      I count more than three ingredients

      3 votes
      1. [4]
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        1. [3]
          wundumguy
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          In that case I can't wait to share my one ingredient chocolate chip cookie recipe

          In that case I can't wait to share my one ingredient chocolate chip cookie recipe

          3 votes
          1. [2]
            AugustusFerdinand
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            Because your chocolate chip cookies are chocolate chips and salt brushed with milk? Salt is a flavor enhancer and in most recipes doesn't do anything (such as causing it to rise, change acidity,...

            Because your chocolate chip cookies are chocolate chips and salt brushed with milk?

            Salt is a flavor enhancer and in most recipes doesn't do anything (such as causing it to rise, change acidity, etc) along with being used in such small quantities that it doesn't really "count". In a lot of these X number of ingredient recipes generally "free" or optional ingredients aren't counted; salt, water, brushing with milk aren't pricey or are nearly free and are something you're likely to have already.

            That said, it's the article that said three ingredients, not the Muriel Halsted.

            2 votes
    3. [9]
      Algernon_Asimov
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      Or... people could just read the article.

      Or... people could just read the article.

      1 vote
      1. [7]
        tomf
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        I was popping it in my recipe organizer and figured that others would be doing the same. Might as well save a few keystrokes for those folks :)

        I was popping it in my recipe organizer and figured that others would be doing the same. Might as well save a few keystrokes for those folks :)

        10 votes
        1. [4]
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          1. [3]
            cfabbro
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            Not the person you asked, but my family and I use Mealboard for meal planning, recipe management, pantry inventory tracking, automatic shopping list generation, etc. And I suspect @tomf might...

            Not the person you asked, but my family and I use Mealboard for meal planning, recipe management, pantry inventory tracking, automatic shopping list generation, etc. And I suspect @tomf might actually be using the same app as well now too, since I recommended it to them a few months ago after pepperplate (the app they were previously using) switched to a SaaS model.

            3 votes
            1. [2]
              tomf
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              ... and it rules! It's nice because you can post recipes through their site -- pretty much the same as pepperplate. This was a great suggestion!

              Mealboard

              ... and it rules! It's nice because you can post recipes through their site -- pretty much the same as pepperplate.

              This was a great suggestion!

              1 vote
              1. cfabbro
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                Awesome, I'm glad to hear it worked out for you! :)

                Awesome, I'm glad to hear it worked out for you! :)

                1 vote
        2. [3]
          Algernon_Asimov
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          The only keystroke I see being saved is the single click required to open the article. The process of copying the recipe text and pasting it into someone's "recipe organizer" is the same whether...

          The only keystroke I see being saved is the single click required to open the article.

          The process of copying the recipe text and pasting it into someone's "recipe organizer" is the same whether they're copying from the article or from your comment.

          Or am I missing something?

          1. [2]
            DrStone
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            Normally I agree that reposting text of an article is unnecessary. Here, however, there’s two reasons. First is something that’s a super common annoyance with recipe articles. The actual recipe is...

            Normally I agree that reposting text of an article is unnecessary. Here, however, there’s two reasons.

            First is something that’s a super common annoyance with recipe articles. The actual recipe is buried after or (as in this case) in the middle of a wall of life story text irrelevant to someone who just wants the recipe.

            Second is that the recipe as formatted in the article isn’t great for easy following (or importing to a recipe organizer). There’s no ingredient & quantity list; things are just mentioned on the fly in the the steps.

            14 votes
            1. Algernon_Asimov
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              I missed that @tomf rewrote the recipe in a different layout. I thought he just copy-pasted the text from the article. Sorry.

              I missed that @tomf rewrote the recipe in a different layout. I thought he just copy-pasted the text from the article. Sorry.

              4 votes
      2. joplin
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        Ha! I read it in reader mode, where it didn't show up, and I was like, "Where's the @#$% recipe? How could they leave that out?!"

        Ha! I read it in reader mode, where it didn't show up, and I was like, "Where's the @#$% recipe? How could they leave that out?!"

        2 votes
  2. [3]
    acdw
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    The only video I could find was this one by ABC. So I'm not sure where the original is or if there is one. But here's a Video for the other visual people.

    The only video I could find was this one by ABC. So I'm not sure where the original is or if there is one. But here's a Video for the other visual people.

    2 votes
    1. [2]
      cfabbro
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      AFAIK that is the video in question. From the article: Although it looks like the view count they are referencing might be from their original upload to Facebook....

      AFAIK that is the video in question. From the article:

      The mother-of-seven featured in an ABC baking video, which has notched up 4.6 million views.

      Although it looks like the view count they are referencing might be from their original upload to Facebook.

      https://www.facebook.com/abcnewengland/videos/558775585036206/

      3 votes
      1. acdw
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        Yes! Thank you! I could not find the original video, that's what I was looking for. Edit: just saw it's the same video but that gives me questions about where this came from. Who discovered her?

        Yes! Thank you! I could not find the original video, that's what I was looking for.

        Edit: just saw it's the same video but that gives me questions about where this came from. Who discovered her?

        1 vote