Breakfast; I have it everyday and it’s by far my favourite meal, when I have time to do it properly. Swedish breakfast is usually nothing fancy. We have smoothies, or porridge with fresh fruit and coffee/tea, or yoghurt with muesli/granola and orange juice or just bread with butter and cheese with some tea/coffee. I like this kind of breakfast a lot, on workdays I don’t have time for anything fancy and to be honest I don’t really like cooked food in the morning. Something I do have sometimes is scones, or pancakes. In the weekend when there’s plenty of time for long breakfasts with some cat cuddling and man hugging we bake scones, cook nice tea, bring out the marmalade and spend an hour just talking, eating and enjoying life.
When I was a kid we had scones for breakfast on birthdays, special occasions and when we were really really lucky.It’s always been very special to me. SO nowadays I’m a scones fascist who won’t let anyone eat scones improperly!
Here’s how we did it this morning.
Do you have a special breakfast you just love?
Scones: Serves 4
- 8dl (3,33 cups!) wheat flour
- 1½ tbsp baking powder
- 1tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 100 gr (3½ oz) vegan margarine
- 4 dl (1,66 cups) soymilk
- (yeah I’m sorry, but it really does require thirds of cups here)
Turn the oven on to 225°C (440°F). Mix together the dry ingredients. Add the margarine and work that mix with your hands (you could put it in the food processor) until the margarine is mixed in evenly and the mixture is kind of grainy. Add the milk and stir together. You don’t want to work the dough very long, just mix it together quickly. Divide the dough into four pieces and make a round cake of each one (I usually just grab a fourth from the bowl with floury hands, but you could put it on a flat surface and do it properly). Put the four round cakes on a baking tray with baking paper. Cut each cake in two, but not all the way through and ‘fork it’ a bit (pierce each round with a fork a few times to help it bake evenly and also because that’s how I’ve always done it!). Bake in the oven for about 12-15 minutes until they are golden and have risen quite a bit. break the rounds apart and cut each half in half! Serve warm with butter and marmalade/jam and some nice tea to go with it.
