[HPforGrownups] Clotted cream revisted

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 11253

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> What should I make or get to have with this culinary expedition?
> On the back of the scone mix, it says "Place the scones on a baking tray
> and leave for 5 minutes to prove at room temperature." What's "prove"?
> Rise?

Homemade jam, preferably with fruits of the summer -- strawberries or
raspberries, IMHO.

"Prove" is basically "rest". Perhaps it has something to do with yeast? Or
perhaps to cool from the mixing. I honestly have very little clue.

--John, who gets his scones from a wonderful little bakery around the corner
so has no need to waste time on his antiquated oven baking them.

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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