The Secret Ingredient: The Winning Recipe

      Greetings! Today I'll be sharing the Winning recipe from The Secret Ingredient. Unfortunately, this will be the last time I'm sharing from this awesome book. It seems I have run out of recipes to share with you, but I'll try to come up with some of my own. Anything for my readers. :)

      My aunt found this awesome song that I really like now. It's Jessie J ~ Domino. View it on my video bar if you will. And you see, after I finished reading The Secret Ingredient, I started reading this other really great book called, guess what?! SCONES and Sensibility by Lindsay Eland. Ha ha SCONES! What a coinkidink! (That means coincidence for those of you who are lost.) But this book does not have recipes I can share with you. Oh well, too bad.


      The book is about a romance obsessed girl, Polly, who works in her family's bakery. She believes she has talent for match making and is determined to bring lovers, of all ages, together...whether they want to be or not. It's a great book even without recipes and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. On the back cover of the book, it states:

To Read:

Mix heaping cupfuls of romanticism

with two quarts of laughter.

Blend well.

Add a splash of sadness, a dash of utter

despair, and four cups of heart warming fun.

Bake at 350 degrees for one evening.

Best enjoyed with a cup of tea, a warm

scone, and a dainty lace handkerchief...

preferably embroidered.

      Believe me it's a great book, but now I think it's time for the winning recipe: Toffee Apple Tea Scones! Yay! But before that one of my favourite tea quotes!!!

Teapot is on, the cups are waiting. Favourite chairs anticipating. No

matter what I have to do, my friend there's always time for you.

~Unknown

Toffee Apple Tea Scones

Ingredients

2 cups King Arthur all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

pinch of tea

3 tablespoons Lurpack butter

1 fresh egg

3/4  cup fresh buttermilk

1/2 cup green apple (chopped)

1/4 cup English toffee pieces (chopped)

1/4 cup of milk

For the glaze:

 2 tablespoons brewed black tea (cooled)

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 cup confectioners' sugar (more to texture if necessary)

2 tablespoons whole milk 

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

How to Bake 

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees farenheit. Mix the dry ingredients together first, then cut the butter, toffee, apples, and egg. Slowly add the buttermilk to form a thick dough. Knead the dough on a board, roll to a 1-inch thickness, and cut the dough into 2-inch triangles. Place each triangle on a greased cookie sheet and brush the tops with milk. Bake for about 12 to 15 minutes in  the oven until golden brown. While the scones are baking, brown the butter in a saucepan and add the brewed tea. Mix in the confectioners' sugar with a whisk. Add the milk until you have a thin glaze. Whisk in vanilla extract. Drizzle on top of the scones when they've cooled slightly; serve. Makes about 12 scones.

Oh my dear fellow...Should you not be asking,

"Would the tea like the cup?" 

~Oscar Wilde

      And that is the last you will hear of  The Secret Ingredient. Unless you read the book yourself of course, and I really hope you do also please try SCONES and Sensibility they're both fantastic. 

XOXO

An Lyn .