Kai Connections – seconds

Ray Jensen, who has lived in Warkworth for the last 48 years, has been making a batch of fresh scones and sharing them with his friends “The Algies” for at least the last five years.

He makes a batch every Friday morning and at 10am his good friends come for a cup of tea/coffee and a chat for an hour.

I was lucky enough to be invited the other day and thought it was such a special thing, I asked if I could take some photos.

So, the following Friday I was treated to Ray’s Scones and I can thoroughly recommend them - they are delicious!

Raewyn supplies the bottle of cream each Friday for the next Friday’s batch.

Ray’s scone recipe

• 4 ½ cups self raising flour.

• 1 x can lemonade.

• 300ml bottle fresh cream.

• 1 cup of sultanas /or/ diced dates that have been soaked for 10 mins to soften. You may need to add a bit more flour.

Directions

Mix together.

Flatten by hand to 10mm thick into a rectangular shape, similar to the size of a placemat.

Do not use a rolling pin and the less handling the better.

Glaze with remnants of cream bottle and a little milk (this makes them go nice and brown on top).

Cut up to make 20 scones and place on baking tray and bake on 200deg Celcius for 17mins.

Ray has them with butter and jam. Enjoy.