Cream Tea...

I love Country Living magazine!  What can I say, I have champagne tastes and enough for lemonade in my wallet.  I dont think even with money I could spend some of the figures mentioned for some bits but non the less I still love the magazine.

This month had an article of Dairy more specific make your own.  So we tried it out and guess what?....its brilliant!  Now my husband & sister both claim to have made butter at school but I dont remember it?  I cant convey the suprise I had after shaking cream for about 15mins that I managed to produce BUTTER.  It was so satisfying that I had to give it another go almost straight away and spurred on by the success of that I also made a batch of clotted cream. :)

The results of my playfullness were quite simply delicious!  Using the buttermilk scone recipe from the magazine and the butter, buttermily and cream I had made I made these.  The scones alone were really quite dull (still tastey but obviously crying out for a dollop of cream).  The jam was sadly not home made but that I think will be my next playtime.  I almost joined the local WI just so I could learn how to make jam & crochet a few years back.....I may still just do that.

Lots of baking and cooking has been taking place (but no photos for hard evidence), I have been incredibly good in that department over the past couple of weeks.  I'll make a bit of an effort to photo it before the savages strike, but you have to understand that after a long day of play these savages are pretty hungry and have little patience for mama to take her photos. 

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