Posted in July 2008
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...when making scones?? Here's our hilarious nightmare of making scones... Katie and I were spending the night together and finally decided that we would attempt to make scones. So, that's not too hard, right?? Right?? Uh, huh. This was my first time and her second time, only she hadn't done it in forever. So, two amateurs in the kitchen...not to say we don't cook, but we were having such a great time, our minds were not on what we were doing. Now, I suggest that the most important and first thing you should do in cooking is....to read the directions. Well...we read them....sorta'. We read them..kinda'. When it came time to put in the baking soda, I carefully made sure I was putting in the baking soda. 2 and 1-half teaspoons to be exact. Actually, what I didn't know was that it called for 2 and 1-half teaspoons of baking powder. So, oblivious to that fact, I meticulously poured in what is a common mistake. "Katie!!?? Umm...I have to tell you something," I half-laughingly stammered. "Yes, dear?" she joyously stated. "Well, I just put in 2 and 1-half teaspoons of baking soda, and..well..it was supposed to be baking powder. Yes, big mistake. Katie, I am soooo sorry!!" "Uh, oh," she chuckled. "Umm...Katie? What are we going to do. Your Mom is out walking, so we can't ask her." "Hmmm..." "Should we try to get it out or start over and waste all of this flour and sugar, which I do not think is a good idea," I worryingly asked. "Yes, I think you're right," she laughed. "Let's try to get it out." So, we got out a teaspoon, and then began to attempt to take out the excess baking soda!! However, there was a slight problem. Baking soda and flour look the same. O.k. So now we have to go by taste, and good ole' Missie takes a rather large taste and amazingly finds out that it's baking soda. They laughed about it after she had gulped down a glass of water. After painstakingly trying to take out as much baking soda as possible, we moved on to the next steps. We soon came to the butter. It called for 1 and 1-half cups of butter, I think, and the sticks of butter were all cut into halves. So, we had about 6 halves of butter sticks to thinly slice. Being the geniuses that we were, we took out a dinner knife, cut the already half pieces of butter into 4 sections, and then cut small, thin squares. All this time, the butter slicer, thing-a-mi-jig was right in front of our nose...or eyes. Slaving over the tedious job of the butter, we finally rejoiced that it was all sliced and began to mix the countless ingredients together. After finding that it was beginning to do what it was "supposed to do," we discovered to our deep dismay that...we had forgotten one of the halves of butter. Not good. Why was it not good?? Because we had already put the buttermilk in, it wasn't going to work well to have to mix in that last piece of butter. Well, we went ahead and did it. Oh, and I almost forgot. We had finally, FINALLY finished grating the top of the lemon peel to get lemon zest, and decided to mix it in with the mixture. No. You're supposed to toss it in at the end. O.k. So, we try to pick out all of the lemon zest. Oh, well. At last!! It was time to kneed the dough. Well, the dough turned out to be too, well, non-thick. Time to "pour" on the flour. Then, the time had come. Pat the dough into somewhat of a ball and drop it onto the greased pan. Stick it in the oven. Let it bake. Wait a second. It's baking. O.k. So what now? Well, WE HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS!! Wash. Scrub. Rinse. Put in dish drainer. or dishwasher. Wash. Scrub. Rinse. Put in dish drainer. or dishwasher. Wash. Scrub. Rinse. Put in dish drainer. or dishwasher. We're done cleaning and the kitchen sparkles. And then, do not ask me the reason and what was said to cause this because I do not remember....we started cracking up. We laughed. And we laughed some more. And guess what??! We laughed some more!! We laughed so hard that my sides were hurting, but I couldn't stop. Katie fell on the floor, and just died (not really) of laughter. I walked in circles dying of laughter, then got dizzy and bumped into the counter. By the time her parents came in the door 5 min. later, we were still cracking up. I can barely put into words the hilarious event. Oh, and by the way, were you wondering how long it took us to make our scones?? What we thought would be 30 minutes turned into...... 2 hours. lol No, I am not the terrible cook you now think I am. Oh, and were you also wondering how the scones turned out?? What was supposed to be 10-15 min. of baking was a whole lot longer. Maybe it was because Katie decided to put it on as a whole and then cut it when it was done baking. Overall, how did it turn out, especially with Missie's baking powder/baking soda mix up??
Actually, purty good, if'n ya asks me. .
So, there's our little cooking adventure. "A joyful heart is good medicine......" Proverbs 17:22 Still laughin' and lovin' it, ~Missie~
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