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Tag Archives: masterchef
World’s Simplest Scone Recipe…
The time has come to sort out the cookbook shelf. Ah!!! What to keep & what not. I kept an eye out for scone recipes & in the Willow Cookery Book 11th Edition from 1969 found a very simple recipe … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Scones, Uncategorized
Tagged buttermilk, cookery book, coronation, cwa, gundowinga, gundowringa, masterchef, schauer, Scones, willow
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Masterchef Follow up & Scone Flurry
Such a flurry of scone activity this week since the Masterchef Scone Challenge Episode in Series 3 Episode 2. There’s still no sign of a recipe for the buttermilk scones although a recipe for date & lemon scones from 2009 … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew denton, buttermilk scones, daily telegraph, date, enough rope, lemon, masterchef, matt moran, matt preston, Norma Allen, Scones, sydney morning herald, white chocolate
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Masterchef & CWA Scone Challenge Followup
Here’s an article I found in the Sydney Morning Herald that followed on from last week’s masterchef scone challenge. They asked Gloria Hyatt who oversaw the CWA cafe at this year’s Sydney Easter Show about scones. They baked about 3000 scones … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Scones, Sydney
Tagged cwa, gloria hyatt, masterchef, recipe, scone, scone challenge, smh, sydney easter show, tips
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Masterchef Scone Challenge & CWA Scone Shame.
Masterchef Series 3 Episode 2: Bootcamp – Scones. Curious that buttermilk scones were the penalty round. It certainly showed that it’s not as simple as you might think. I couldn’t find a copy of the recipe & they didn’t give … Continue reading
Scone Challenge on Masterchef tonight!!!!!
Amazing to see scones reigning supreme on Masterchef tonight. Hopefully, the world will take us seriously now & the general standards of scone baking will improve. If you missed it, there were a few tears. It looks like it will … Continue reading
Sconquest. 