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Scones
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

Ingredients
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
4 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons shortening
3/4 cup cream
1 egg
Handful dried currants or dried cranberries

Directions
Heat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix well. Cut in butter and
shortening. In a separate bowl, combine cream with beaten egg then add to dry ingredients. Stir in

fruit. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Roll dough out and cut into biscuit size rounds.
Bake for 15 minutes or until brown.