Trevin Farms Scone Recipe

If you have ever stayed with us at Trevin Farms, then you know one of our signature breakfast items is our scone. We haved served scones to virtually every guests who have stayed with us. Whether they are plain, blueberry, lemon or roasted pear and goat cheese. We have often been asked to give up our recipe and we do write it down for anyone who asks for it, so we have decided to let everyone know what the recipe is for the scones. It is very easy, but remember not to over mix the batter or they will not be as flaky as they should be. We us cold, cold butter so that there are chunks of butter in the batter, so if they are in yours, you are doing it correctly. Bake the scones at 425 degrees for 9-10 minutes in the oven. You can freeze the scone batter and take them out as you need them (shape them and freeze them)just add another minute to your baking time. Everyone's ovens are different so just keep an eye on them towards the end, longer if needed, shorter if needed. So here it is, 2 cups Flour (we use King Arthur, Vermont you know) 1/3 cup sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt (kosher) 1/2 cup buttermilk or goat's milk (goat's milk buttermilk is best) 1 egg (farm fresh of course) 6 tablespoons of ice cold butter. Add all dry ingriedents in mixer and mix. Add milk and then egg then stop the mixer. Lastly add the butter in small cubes and start mixer. Mix for about a minute and stop. If there are crumbles on the bottom of the mixer, that's o.k. just mix by hand until all in incorporated. Fold out on floured surface and you can either roll with rolling pin to about 1/2 inch thickness or hand flatten. Shape dough into a rectangle keeping the 1/2 inch thickness. Cut on a diaginal cross cutting dough. You should get eight scones from the dough. There it is, we wish you all happy eating. Any questions, email it to us. Have a great day and come back soon. Troy and Kevin

New Year on the farm

Good Afternoon everyone. The New Year on the farm always brings us hope. This year we look forward to our guests visiting us from near or far. So far this year, we have guests coming to visit us from the Netherlands. Although this is not the furthest guests have come, we are always excited to meet new people and share our farm with them. We love it when we have returning guests and this year looks great as a lot have expressed their plans to come back especially during kidding time. There has not been too much snow this year but that is o.k. The goats don't mind the snow but given the choice, they would choose not to walk around in the snow. We have kicked off a campaign for our cheese making facility on www.kickstarter.com to find some help to get us our dream. We look forward to meeting our goal and making cheese to be able to sell to anyone that would like (and who wouldn't)purchase our cheese. We hope to see you all back here in 2012 and we THANK YOU for visiting us in 2011/2010/2009 and 2008.
See you all soon
Our Best
Kevin and Troy