Oatmeal Scones

Frosted with icing and grated lemon zest

These have great flavor and texture. Makes about 2 dozen small scones.

Found the recipe online but it's so modified, it isn't the same recipe by now.






Preheat oven to 375°

1 ¾ c. flour (one cup white, ¾ whole wheat is a good mix)

1 ½ t baking powder

¾ t. baking soda

½ t. salt

⅓ c. sugar
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¾ c. butter (1.5 sticks), cold, cut into bits

1⅓ c. old fashioned oats

½ c. currants, dried cranberries, chopped prunes or raisins

½ c. buttermilk or regular milk

1 large egg, lightly beaten

confectioners sugar + water drops


Combine first 5 ingredients by hand in a medium-large bowl.

Add butter and mix by hand until it resembles coarse meal.

Add oats, currants, buttermilk, and egg until dough just sticks together. Knead in the bowl until it holds together. Doesn't take long but your hands get very messy!

Flatten into a large circle on a smooth surface like a flexible mat.

Cut into sixths. Then cut each sixth into 4 triangles. Try to make them approximately the same size.

Arrange on a sprayed cookie tin. They will fit on one sheet. They don't rise or spread much. Bake about 18 minutes or until lightly browned. (It's hard to see since the dough is already brown.)

When they're cool, you can ice them. In a small bowl, pour confectioners sugar. Add a scant amount of water and keep eye dropping it in until you can spread it. If you put in too much water it is too thin to spread.

Throw-It-Together High Protein Passover Pancakes

My new experiment is cooking without recipes. Partly I am just getting lazy, and partly it's fun. So far so good.
No measures on this one, it is a concept.

Butter, for large frying pan
2 eggs, separated - make sure the whites go in the bigger bowl
Salt - sprinkle
Cinnamon - generous amount, like 1 t.
Sugar - modest amount
Milk (or cream)
Matzah meal (can be part cakemeal)
Almond flour
Mashed ripe banana, optional

Melt the butter over low eat so it doesn't burn.

Beat the egg whites.
In the other bowl, stir egg yolks, sugar, salt and cinnamon.
Add matzah meal, almond flour, and some milk until it's a nice batter consistency.
Fold the batter in the egg whites and incorporate.
Turn up the heat in the frying pan to medium/high and drop rounded spoonfuls of batter which you can flatten.
Fry til browned, and flip to brown the second side a bit, as well.

These are good with jam, fruit, cottage cheese, syrup -- things you would have around at Passover. They are very nutritious.