Kiranya bakes a winning recipe

MEET six-year-old Kiranya Moodley, the uMhlanga resident who walked away as the best scone baker in the  Hirsch’s Mother’s Day competition run earlier this month.

Not only did Kiranya make her mother, Lucy proud but the eager baker also walked away with a R500 Hirsch’s voucher and a digital copy of Mum’s on the run cook book.

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Kiranya joined her mother in kitchen and whipped up a batch of delicious homemade scones.

Here’s the Hirsch’s Four-In-One Scones recipe Kiranya followed that makes about 10 – 12 medium-sized scones:

Ingredients

240g cake flour (500 ml)
20ml baking powder
60g butter or margarine, cut into small pieces (60 ml)
30ml castor sugar
125ml milk, yoghurt, maas or buttermilk
1 egg, beaten

To serve: 125 ml whipped cream and about 120 ml strawberry jam (or mum’s favourite topping)

Method
1. Preheat oven to 220°C/200C fan/ Gas mark 7.
2. Sift flour and baking powder together.
3. Using a food processor is excellent for the making of pastry and scones. Add the flour and baking powder to the bowl of the food processor, which has been fitted with the double-knife stainless steel blade.
4. Add butter or margarine, and pulse machine to rub in.
5. Add in the sugar; pulse again.
6. Blend the milk, yoghurt, maas or buttermilk and the egg together; and, with the machine running, pour through the feeder tube.
7. The dough will come together in a ball. Stop the machine immediately, and place dough onto a lightly-floured work surface.
8. Pat out to 2cm thick.(Do not roll out with a rolling pin: this will prevent scones from rising; also, light handling is required.)
9. Cut out shapes with a scone cutter dipped in cake flour.
10. Place onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Brush scone tops with a little milk or beaten egg, if desired.
11. Bake for 8 – 10 minutes until well-risen and golden brown in colour.
12. Split open when cooled, and place a spoon of whipped cream on each scone, topped with about 5 ml of strawberry, raspberry or apricot jam.
13. Serve with butter, jam and grated cheese, as an alternative to the cream.