BLUEBERRY LEMON OATMEAL SCONES



I recently posted about these on facebook and got a lot of interesting comments and thought I'd share the recipe here. My brother lives in Arizona and sent a box of citrus fruit from his trees and I decided to use the lemons to make scones. We've had this scone recipe for years and it's a favorite of ours. It is easily adapted to whatever flavors you want to add such as blueberries in this case, or golden raisins which is one of my favorites. I normally don't add a glaze on them, but since my friend Jeni posted about her scones this week and she had a lemon glaze, I thought it sounded good enough to try. I was NOT disappointed. It was so delicious.

OATMEAL SCONES

2 c. flour

1/2 c. sugar

1 tsp. salt

3 c. oats

1 c. shortening(melted), oil, or butter

(of course, the best scones are with the butter)

1 tsp. baking soda

1 c. sour cream or sour milk

(I use sour milk-1 c. milk with 1 Tbsp. vinegar)

Mix everything together in a large bowl. Drop by spoonfuls onto cooking sheet.

Bake at 350 until slightly browned on the edges.

For lemon blueberry scones, I added the juice of one lemon to the batter along with

1 cup of blueberries.

After baking and cooling for 5 minutes, glaze with lemon glaze.

GLAZE: powdered sugar, milk, lemon zest and juice of 1/2 lemon