Mighty Fine Oatmeal Scones

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup steel cut oats
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup pecans or 1 cup walnuts or 1 cup hazelnuts, evenly ground
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/2 cup milk (regular or soy both work)
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1 tablespoon real maple syrup

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 2 combine the first six ingredients (flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, and salt) and mix well.
• 3 cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• 4 using a food processor, grind the nuts to a coarse crumble. (you may use one of the nuts listed, or a mix of all three.) add nuts to dry ingredients and mix well.
• 5 add milk and egg to the dry ingredients and mix until the dough is moist and there is little dry material left. add maple syrup and mix again.
• 6 form dough into a ball and turn onto a lightly floured surface. knead six or seven times.
• 7 grease a baking sheet. move the dough to the sheet and pat into an eight or nine inch round, about an inch high. with a sharp knife, cut the round into 12 wedges. keep them in a circle.
• 8 bake at 375 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes, or until golden brown and a knife inserted into the widest and deepest part of the wedges comes out clean. let stand a minute and cut apart entirely.
• 9 serve warm with butter or jam.