Scones with your {bits & pieces}
An Instagram friend, lexysauve, shared that
“These oatmeal scones are perfect. And I will forever be doubling my scone recipes for #saveastepcooking which @leilamarielawler taught me about! The second batch of unbaked dough freezer perfectly on a piece of parchment lined plate, then you simply wrap the parchment over the round and pop it in a labeled plastic bag for the freezer! You need to lengthen your cook time.
I appreciate the tip on freezing, because I’m always unsure about whether this sort of dough will really freeze properly (though I often freeze baked scones and find they reheat perfectly).
So of course I had to ask her for the recipe — the idea of toasting the oats really appealed to me — and try them myself! Deirdre says they are indeed “perfect”!
You can find the recipe for Toasted Oatmeal Scones here at Creations by Kara. I did everything as she said!
My notes:
Really cool the oats completely or they will melt your butter, defeating the point of the scone, which is the flaky, buttery texture.
I like to divide my dough in half or even fourths and then form the scones by cutting each disk into sixths (it’s not hard once you get the hang of first cutting in half and then each half into thirds) — I just like mine a bit more bite-sized. So my batch here yielded 12 scones.
I used “raw sugar,” i.e. large crystal sugar, to sprinkle on top for a nice texture.
Next time I will double!
Enjoy!
bits & pieces
I want to offer a few articles that pertain to Covid, but hopefully not in a contentious way. I know our readers always read before commenting and I trust this excellent habit will continue!
From Msgr. Pope: Coronavirus Stalks in the Darkness, But Do Not Be Afraid
The burden of proof is on those who impose burdens — from Edward Feser, professor of philosophy and defender of common sense: “Everyone should make an extra effort at showing humility during this crisis, but especially those who are imposing enormous costs on others, where reasonable people can disagree about the necessity and efficacy of those costs.”
Infants learn from facial expressions and their development depends upon them.
Widespread daycare has really drained our common sense about babies. We take all sorts of things for granted that don’t hold up to scrutiny or even what we know to be right, because no one can just say that it’s not good for babies to be away from their mothers.
But I have to say that I reached a new level of shock upon reading the tweet of a working mom who mentioned that her very young baby used to get sick with a fever once every two weeks at his full-time daycare, but since Covid, the daycare workers have been wearing masks, and baby hasn’t gotten sick at all!
Presumably they have also been washing their hands, which I think matters far more to contain the spread of disease. But what makes me physically sick myself is the thought of a baby spending all day every day with “caregivers” who are wearing masks!
If you do a search on the importance to their well being of infants (and children, and adults) seeing the human face, you can only find evidence for the proposition. No one holds that it doesn’t matter or isn’t harmful to deprive human beings of this sort of interaction.
We can’t let fear of disease — remote fear in the case of young people under the age of about 26 — wipe away the basic human need to see faces.
“Around eight to 12 months of age, infants learn that they can use information from other people’s faces – especially their mom’s – to help them figure out what to do in new situations.
“For example, when infants who are first learning to crawl and walk are presented with a possibly dangerous slope, they look to their mothers’ facial expressions for cues.”
And a few on politics more broadly:
The Cato Institute did a poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
Two reviews/critiques of books on race that are best sellers and ubiquitous amongst students (due to propagandizing institutional efforts): The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility (White Fragility) and Ibram X. Kendi, Prophet of Anti-racism (How to Be an Antiracist). Our country has struggled from the beginning with racism. We have to think well on what the right approach is, lest we harm the very bonds that we are trying to heal.
A cautionary tale for today’s ‘woke’ movement, a review of the movie Mr Jones, about “Walter Duranty, who as the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times led the cover-up of the 1932-3 famine in Ukraine, [and for whom] mass starvation was a career opportunity.” Updated to add another review of the movie — the Mr Jones of the title is Gareth Jones, a Welshman who went to Ukraine to see for himself what had happened. “Walter Duranty led the ferocious, Soviet-prodded attack on Jones’s credibility. He also bullied most other Moscow-based Western journalists—to their enduring disgrace—into doing the same, lest they lose their visas. Jones, however, had a spine. He did not back off. He continued writing and speaking about the famine in Ukraine with lasting effect, until his death under suspicious circumstances two years later.”
Dept. of Misc:
From Leila Miller, important words to clarify what loving your erring son or daughter really means: The biggest mistake of modern Catholic parenting.
A 360° view of the walls of Church of St Peter and St Paul, Chaldon, UK, painted around 1200, depicting purgatory and hell.
Did you see the evocative photo of the priest heading towards a major pile-up to offer last rites? Steve Skojec writes a moving reflection on “just doing his job.” We all have a job to do — let’s do it and not be afraid.
To share with a friend who just isn’t sure about homeschooling: Kristina Hernandez: Homeschooling during coronavirus – here’s why my kids will be with me this fall
from the archives
Now, more than ever, you need our wedding advice — that venue is closed and you’re looking at a small social-distanced event with disgruntled and frightened relatives. Deirdre’s here to sort out your priorities! {pretty, happy, real weddings}
My most basic parenting advice: Act, Don’t React
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