Since its October, there will be lots of pumpkins about. Apart from making soup and carving into ghoul-like faces, here is another great thing you can do with your pumpkin. Pumpkin scones!
These are a bit of a favourite of mine, have a lovely colour and are famous where I’m from (Queensland). I remember making these at school in home economics class. Relatively easy even for a 12 year old!
Pumpkin is a great vegetable. It’s low in calories and carbohydrate, high in vitamin A and it’s a good source of vitamins C , E and lots of minerals including magnesium, potassium, and iron.
Ingredients
For these pumpkin scones you’ll need:
- 2 ½ cups self raising flour
- 1 cup mashed pumpkin (cold)
- 55g butter
- 1 egg
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup milk
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C (gas mark 6)
- Beat butter until soft and add sugar
- Mix in pumpkin and egg
- Add the milk and then slowly add flour
- Turn dough onto a floured board and knead
- Roll out and cut dough into circles
- Place onto greased tray
- Cook at 200 degrees for 15 mins
Lovely warm or cooled.
