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Recipe Of The Week: Hungarian Sour Cream Scones

• 7 Mar 2017 6:01 AM

Accroding to historians scones (or pogácsa in Hungarian) are one of the oldest biscuits that were already baked in the time of the Hungarian conquest. Scones are small, round biscuits popular mainly in the Carpathian Basin and on the Balkans. Their name derives from the word focacea (baked dough), which is derivative of the Latin word “focus” that means fire. The word pogácsa was taken over from the South Slavic languages (it’s called pogača in Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia).

Ingredients:

500 g (~4 cups) flour
150 ml (~2/3 cup) milk
25 g fresh yeast (2 1/2 tsp dry yeast)
1 tsp sugar
1 egg
60 g (~1/4 cup) sour cream
100 g (~1/2 cup) lard
15 g (~3 tsp) salt
250 g (~1/2 lb) ground cracklings
2 tsp black pepper
1 egg for egg wash

In lukewarm milk dissolve yeast with half teaspoon of sugar.

Sift the flour in a bowl and rub lard in with your fingertips. Add egg, sour cream, salt and activated yeast, and knead into a smooth dough until pliable and soft.

On a floured surface roll out the dough into a 5 mm thin rectangel. Spread ground cracklings evenly all over the top and sprinkle with black pepper.

Cover dough and let it rest for 30 minutes.

Repeat the procedure: roll out & fold -> rest for 30 minutes -> roll out & fold -> rest for 30 minutes

Roll out the dough to 2 cm thickness and score the top with a knife (don’t cut through).

Cut out the scones with a small biscuit cutter.

Reroll the dough scraps and cut more rounds.

Place the scones on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.

Spread the tops with beaten egg. Leave the scones to rise for 20 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 220 °C.

Bake the scones for 15 minutes.

Crackling scones are the best on the day they were made.

Source: puszta.com

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