 Hey, hey, hey, can you hear me? Oh my gosh, will this please work, please? Okay, let's see. Sorry, this is hard for me to reach and really hard for me to type. Okay, anybody that's on here, if you can tell me if you can hear me or not. Actually, this will need to be here. I'm live on TikTok as well. So if it looks like everything's, I can hear you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome. See if I have anybody even on here. Hello. Hello. Sorry. My voice actually that's not gonna work because I'm gonna have to tilt it down. Hmm. Okay, I'm gonna have to get off of this. Sorry. Sorry guys, you're gonna have to watch it live on YouTube. This one has got to go. There's too much. All right. Welcome. Welcome Paul. Welcome. Darn. Darn Cheerios. That's funny. Welcome. Hopefully everybody can hear me. Episode two. Episode two. Here we go. Today, the vote was cheese scones. I have never made them. Cheese scones. Paul, cheese scones. I have never made them. I put out a vote on Instagram yesterday. If you wanted to vote and didn't, it's, it was also on YouTube and they voted for cheese scones. How's it stand? Welcome. What time is it there? Where is everybody joining me from? This is the best cooking show ever. And really because I realized after the first episode, this is episode number two, episode number one. What you can watch that, I think it's linked in the description, but yeah, so we made cookies and to show you how much my kids loved them, I still have a couple left. Not a big fan of them in my household. Those, there's some other cookies in there as well, but oh Chicago, nice. Yeah, so I'm thinking I'm probably not gonna get a lot of New Zealanders because in the middle of the day, they're either at work or at school or whatever they do, or maybe they're taking a break. I had a lot of people watch the replay, so we're all good. You can watch it when it works for you. So this is episode two and we're going to make cheese scones. I have never made these. Honest of goodness, I've never made these, but always buy them at the cafe. Like it took me forever to buy them, probably years, because when I think of scones, I think sweet. So I make really good chocolate chip coconut scones. Maybe I'll make those for you sometime, but the savory, I've had the date scones. Those are okay. The cheese scones are good. It is a, so we're cooking with Edmonds. If you don't know in New Zealand, Edmonds is the cookbook that everybody uses. And there's many, many versions. I believe this is the 2016 version. This is the one I have. I'm not paying for another one. I have a lot of older ones that I've gotten out of op shops, so I've looked at all of them. So today we're going to make cheese scones or everywhere in New Zealand. If you've never been here, that is a staple in the morning, like biscuits would be in the southern U.S. So, but I just want to read what it says about scones on here. Oh Scott, is that my supposed to say? Yeah, that's right. You guys always correct me. It's not scones. It's scones. Is it scones? I feel like people are always correcting me on this and I'm not totally sure. Anyway, da, da, da. It says these scones are an Edmonds and a Kiwi staple that will probably be the most visited page of this whole bucket. This whole book. This whole book, most visited page, scones, scones, scones. Anyway, I might just say scones. Are we going to be okay with that? Are we going to be able to survive? Okay. It's just what's going to come out of my mouth. I got enough to think about. I don't know. So this is not a professional cooking show. This is live. This is happening in action. You never know what's going to come out of my mouth. You never know what I'm going to do and mix and do wrong on the cookies that I made last week messed up. You guys on the chat were telling me that I was doing something wrong. Of course, I'm doing it, not reading what you're saying, but I learned from my mistakes. I think I will make them again and they will be much better. Maybe I'll have christie how to do this because those are pretty easy. And yeah, so I think that this was what makes, I think this is why this is the best cooking baking show ever because it's interactive. It's collaborative. We are working on this together. This isn't just me going and living and looking and showing you how to do it and having all these lights and professional whatever. This is really happening. This is what we're having today and we don't know if it's going to turn out because I've never made it. So this is an American cooking in New Zealand cooking New Zealand food because let me tell you this Edmunds cookbook this cookbook Bible as they say is There are so many things Like what like what is that that I have never made I've never seen you know what I haven't even made a sponge cake I think we're going to put that on the list Like what is this what like what is that like what am I looking at there? There's like an egg in the middle of like I don't know meat Scotch eggs Sounds British. I'm not sure what that is. Yeah, so I am cooking my way through Edmunds. I'm starting with a lot of the popular things Welcome welcome everyone So here we go so Because this is not professional But I did prepare I think I have everything out because then I can talk it'd be more interesting Is I'm going to mix this up and it's only 10 minutes in the oven. That's the other key is it needs to be scum scones scones as long as you Has melted butter. Oh really? So I've had the butter sitting out It doesn't say melted butter because when I make scones, you don't melt the butter Otherwise, they don't get thick, right? Okay. Okay. I know how to bake. Okay So we're going to move down when I'm mixing so you can see what I'm doing and then we'll move up and we'll chat again and then we'll chat again When they're in the oven So go ahead post your questions post your comments the whole time. Let me know Let me know what I'm doing wrong because I learned a lot on that last one And so and so in addition, this is not only live But this is a collaborative effort in baking But there's also a lesson to be learned last week. We had a lesson. You'll have to watch that to learn the lesson Um And I'm sure this week we will have a lesson. It must be the teacher and me every time we do something There's something we can learn from right? Okay. Here we go. Let's make scones. So let me just show you The ingredients can you see? Okay Okay, it might be getting a little bit darker. Okay, so we have three cups of flour We have cheese. So I didn't know what cheese to get I went with tasty cheese I don't normally eat tasty cheese, but uh I felt like might give it the most flavor Okay, so then we got 75 grams of butter and I have like put this on My scale. So this is exactly 75. We have one and a fourth cups of milk Because it's cheese scones you add some powdered mustard and cayenne pepper Let's talk about that for a minute Why are we adding cayenne pepper? Does anybody know? Like if you don't know New Zealanders in general don't like things too spicy This is a generality. Sorry if you like spice like I've even gone into Takeaway restaurants and I was like I wanted spicy And literally I say no kiwi don't like it spicy and I'm like Okay, I want it spicy. I'm not from here. I wanted spicy and they look at me like they don't even know Okay, so why are we putting cayenne pepper? I don't know, but that's what we're putting in now a fourth of a teaspoon of each Then we have salt And this is the other question I have Oh thinly chived. Oh onion and bacon bacon makes It doesn't I'm doing the Edmonds cookbook and it doesn't say any of that Anyway, five teaspoons of baking powder What like I even looked up biscuit recipes. We don't put that much in I was like five teaspoons Well, this is what it says. This is what we'd be putting in. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Okay Okay, so uh So we're supposed to sift the flour and all of that So I'm just going to pour the flour in we have the baking powder Boom, we have the salt And I guess we might as well put these in there we go bum bum bum um Here we go. Oh, not everything's getting sifted Okay, coming out of the bowl. Okay. Look at this. I guess I got a hole in here That's not a professional There's a hole in there whatever whatever you guys Edmonds you can send me some new equipment. That'd be great I am marketing your book for free. Here we go. Okay. So then it says to add the butter now This butter has been softening for about an hour um, and it says to use your fingers and mix it up, which is what I normally do with scones I'm actually going to go and just I believe I washed my hands right before I push play but just in case Do this not be crazy. Okay Here we go. Make sure nice and clean Um boom put the butter in That's my finger part and you just like mix it with your fingers And it's just the best way to cut. I feel like that's not enough butter For all that flour because I normally do two cups with about that much butter Anywho, I'm following The Edmonds Recipes Okay, let me just read make sure Okay, so then it says after this while I'm doing this I'm just going to talk to you about the next step It says add the milk and quickly mix with a round bladed table knife To a soft dough for light tender scones mixer should be quite soft And a little sticky scrape the dough into a floured baking tray, which I have look at this look at look look at this. I'm like organized boom Not even sure that's a baking tray, but we're using it. That's what we're doing Um, okay So maybe I could go up while I'm doing this because it's going to take me a minute because I want to make sure that this butter is incorporated well Um, anyway How is everybody if you don't know New Zealand had a public holiday waitangi day on Monday What did you guys do? Where did you go? Bacon and onions are extras you could add for yumminess. Oh, that kind of makes me I do have bacon I mean, I didn't cook it so I would have to cook it not sure we have time for this but Yeah, so tell me anything you guys did this weekend Let me tell you a story over the weekend So I was traveling and if you don't know me I sleep very well in the car and of course I was asleep and um We pulled into an op shop because my family loves op shopping I didn't know where we were. I woke up everybody gets out of the car. I'm slow get my shoes on I'm kind of trailing behind And if you got my email this morning, I kind of talked about that uh the story I'm walking into the op shop and I hear a boom like that And I was like, what is that turn around and something goes accident accident cars pulling over and like oh crap So I went up there. So yeah, there's anything I do this guy. He ends up being 80 years old got hit by a car In the road. He's laying on the concrete. I go in like panic attack because It's horrible to see someone older anybody laying on They just got hit by a car And I was like, oh my gosh, he ended up being okay. He was fine But I was the one on 111 answering all the questions doing a really bad job because he was like, where are you? And I'm like I don't know. I just Oh my god, I think I'm in love in And I'm like, oh my gosh, and she's all like, how old is the guy? I'm like, how is he doing? I'm like, oh That's I'm not a nurse there was more of like a nurse lady on site and she Took over the phone call and I just helped the wife who was frantic thinking that her husband just died Oh, it's horrible. Have you guys ever experienced that? It was not I'm going to go watch my fingers. This is perfectly incorporated guys. It's like literally So he's fine and I didn't actually witness it but Oh Scary Okay, so wait a minute. When do I put? Wait a minute. When do I put the cheese in? Do I put it in now? Probably before I put the milk in. Yeah, we're gonna do that We are going to make a decision And so it says so when it says this like rounded knife, does it mean something like this? Okay, okay. I'm just putting the cheese at that has a strong smell. Hmm strong smell So yeah that I do not do good and you should see me if like something happens to my kids like they get injured. I can't even move So heads off to all of you guys that are in emergency services because I couldn't do it Okay, I'm gonna go down and show you as I pour in the milk Uh, okay, here we go So normally in my scones, I would pour it in the middle I guess I'll do it. Do I pour all of it? Ah, maybe I don't pour all of it. Okay. I'm just gonna use this because That knife seems weird Okay, hopefully this looks right guys. What do we think? Does this look right? Okay Looks good to me looks good to me I Know we're not supposed to mix it too much. So let's get the rest of the milk in there That is all exactly one and a fourth a cup of milk Here we go a sticky my gosh, please let these turn out Please let these turn out I guess we can have them for dinner tonight. What are we making? What are you guys making for dinner? It's like it's like the endless job that you hate What are you making for dinner? Somehow they always ask me like how about you make dinner? You can make dinner So this looks really good actually So even though it's probably gonna stick to my fingers. I'm just gonna go do this a bit Just to get it all incorporated. Am I doing this wrong? I'm sure someone's yelling at me use the knife use the knife Okay, so I don't need it at all. Okay. I'm not gonna need it. It doesn't say to need it Okay, I'm just gonna stick everything on there You know, it's like maybe I should watch a demonstration of this. Okay, so we are just going to plop this out On to the flower thing. You can see it's sorry my hands are a mess Get all the flour And I'm just going to cut them hold on let me get my hands sort of How are we doing? I'm not gonna take it forever here 17 minutes. Oh, we're doing good. Okay. Let's move this along So normally I pat it out make some nice edges and then we're gonna cut it Right Well, I guess I normally make triangles, but I don't think we're supposed to make What should I do here like this maybe? Probably not like this. Okay So like we're just going to make them small. I guess we'll just go like this Some of them are going to be a bit small, which is fine Okay, so here we go Like these end pieces are a bit small. Maybe I'll just Make them Like this Like this Oh, maybe I should have painted it with crap. Okay. So then we have to paint them with Oh my gosh my hands With milk. I got extra milk Oh, look at how prepared I am. You guys are so impressed and boom boom boom Fresh um A little bit of milk. They look good They might not be the right shape, but when you're cooking at home nobody cares This is not This is not me trying to be perfect here Here we go. And then we're supposed to put some cheese on top Do you guys like how often if you are in New Zealand like how often do you make scones? Like is this really something that people make or do you generally have them in the cafe like me? Ooh, I probably have too much cheese. How much cheese I put on these Probably just a little huh? Okay, maybe I'm supposed to do this first I know someone's on there dying to correct me. So We'll see I'm just trying to make the basic recipe I guess now all I have in my head is I want to bake in an onion in there Do you guys take this for like potlucks or share a plate kind of things? All right, here we go Looks good. Did I put everything in there? Did I miss anything? No, okay. So here we go They're going in the oven. It's set Bake for 10 minutes and then cool on On a rack and wrap them in a clean Towel so here we go. Sorry my lovely hands All right, so my my oven has been heated and as you guys know from the last episode my oven is hot So we are not going to do a full 10 minutes We are going to do eight minutes Now I'm going to have to watch that because you guys know last week You guys know last week that You know it went off When it was ready, it doesn't always do that sometimes it doesn't go off at all Oh, sorry Okay Normal kitchen knife. Okay. I've never had success with scones. They turn out like rocks. Okay Okay, I mixed it too much Oh Oh look at the blooming sunflower fields Okay, so go ahead and post any questions that you have or anything you want me to talk about As we have a few minutes um Okay, cool. It looks like I got it right Okay, I'm not cooking from another cookbook. The whole point of this is admits So, um, Usually make them for smoco. Okay, you guys are so funny If you don't know what that is, that's like having morning tea with a cigarette or vaping or Okay, that's I got I must have touched that with my dirty hands. Let me get some more water. Hold on. Oh my ring Covered in dough Okay, so What is my go that is a good question the question is everyone if you can't see the chat What is my go-to karaoke song? My gosh, we do karaoke a lot. We have it in our house Or we have a whole band setups and mics and stuff. So we do do it a lot. I am Not a singer like there are some good singers in my family. I am a dancer not a singer as you know So I could be the backup dancer to the singers so but of course I do because it's just fun What song do I normally do? Oh I like a lot of pink songs. Um, I like Of course, my mind is blank when you ask me exactly something like that. So Smoco does not mean you smoke. It's just a break. Okay Okay So why would you not just call it morning tea or break like everybody else? Why are we calling it a smoco if it doesn't involve smoking? I think it doesn't involve smoking I think it is your break and of course you don't have to smoke but What You guys are so funny. It's just kiwi speak. I see interesting Take this off. I'm getting all this dough on there They turn out they look good. They look really puffy. I wonder why all of that baking powder Anyway Oh, what day is it? You know, when you have a short week, it's like, okay To cram everything important my husband's turning 50 this weekend. So we're having a big party So that just means me Um, so it should be fun. I'm excited So we're just going to go to the park. So hope there's good weather Uh, Jeremiah was Okay, smoco is from world war two. Everyone smoked. Yeah, Jeremiah was before yeah, like why I can't think of any Um, it's like blank in my head Does my family like rugby? Well, nobody in my family plays rugby We like watching me all blacks. We like we've gone to some hurricane games and Yeah, but I wouldn't say that we like it, you know, for us we actually end up We have some channels now where we can watch American sports. So we have watched a lot of nba nfl. So Um It'd be careful. Don't overcook. Okay. Thanks paul. I'll keep my eye on it. I have I have what I like to call the What's it called like? I'm a super sniffer So like my nose goes off when something's done like I can literally be upstairs and my nose will go off when someone's cooking Is there banana bread in the Edmunds cookbook? Will I be watching the Super Bowl? Well I'm thinking about it. Um, you know if the Packers were in it then for sure It would be a huge party at my house But yeah, sometimes there are some cool bars around here that do it and they kind of go all out Those are fun. I might go it's in the morning, right? So Um, are you going to be watching it? Um, let me I'm sure there's banana bread. I was good The other choice today was banana cake. So we'll have to make that But I had um, okay, it's called banana loaf And it isn't here Let me just look at it I'm excited. I think that these scones are going to work out and they're going to be amazing Okay, banana loaf Okay Yep, everything you expect Edmunds also has scone scot scone mix scone mix um Yeah, I've made the scone mix because that's the american way of doing it buying in a box and then dumping it and adding some wet ingredients Um, so I haven't it hasn't turned out so I never bought it again. I know it. Yeah Do you do you guys have any luck with that? Do you have any luck with that? I just I have been buying just so you guys know all my computer's sitting on top of it So I can't show you But I buy baking flour. I've been getting it from Gilmour's All of my baking comes out so much better So I don't use regular flour. I don't use high-grade flour. I don't use whatever kinds of flour I use the baking flour and cakes Super moist perfect almost and I was at a friend's house and they had this big I'm like baking flour I'm not familiar with that and they said they got a Gilmour. So I went over there and I have that's the only thing I use You buy it in big bags. So it's a really long time. So I only have to buy it a couple times a year but That works really good. That is my hint of the day So hopefully we will have a lesson. Let me check these Oh two minutes left Okay So the cheese is melting on the top. Do you think Do you think like they need to be brownish? What does it say? Oh shoot I've lost the page Of course it was Yeah, yeah um Or until golden brown make for 10 minutes. Okay, so we're definitely not golden brown Um So, okay, thanks Adele. Thank you. You guys are so helpful. This is a very collaborative effort. I'm so impressed with us This is so great. Um And yeah Yeah, so the afghans like I told you my family doesn't love them. I loved them. They turned out good Um when my my kids friends come over they eat them all But yeah, so I made those last week and I still have three in there. I'm like, okay. What is happening? So Um Okay, so as we can remember I only put that in for eight minutes. So let's go with 10 because they're definitely like Uh, yeah, if I were mixing it's a protein and gluten amounts. Yeah Okay, so just lightly. Okay, so 10 more five two more minutes. I bet you they'll be good. I just want them to be not so So You know, I don't know white color tan, you know, there's just no color Um, let me get out my I love all these little bowls. I got these at kmart. I think I got like I got like 20 some bowls or 20 bucks or something. So Um, okay, hold on everyone. It's about to come out of the oven um That's what I do yesterday. Oh, I got my nails done. Oh, oh I got my toes done Yeah, nobody wants to see those Yeah, so I was getting my phone fixed and there's a nail plate. It's right next to it. So what do you do? It was a perfect amount of time as soon as my nails were done. My phone was done It was like how does that ever happen? Nothing's ever convenient in my life It's always running around and forgetting and getting and forgetting and getting so Okay, there's an orange over there that looks really good Okay So if you guys have opinions about what I make next week Okay, they're just starting to brown So one more minute So what do you guys like? What should I make next week? Give me some ideas From this book. Okay, they are browning a bit, but they are so thick I could tell in the middle that it's a little bit soft. So I'm just going to give it another minute Wait, what? You're not supposed to separate them before cooking. Oh, I didn't know that Does it say that? Yeah, then separate the scones to allow a two centimeter space between them Of course, I didn't read that I just did that Um because that's what I would do with my scones So here we are Here we are and this is a new computer. I got a new computer last week I of course bought a second hand because I can't handle the prices Um, and it's fantastic. So Uh, it allows the sides to cook. Yeah, so it's definitely looking good. Let me just I mean like so good Like so good like one minute and they're out I'm excited Do we need to try them? Maybe Oh, you import them from Ozzie much cheaper for computers and software. Oh, that's good to know Where were you last week? I guess I didn't tell you Um grill for 30 seconds. Oh really? Oh, Paul, try that Because I don't make the cheese look really good Okay, if you're ever on grill or fan grill, we better stand here Because you know what happens We've all done We've all done it. We know what happens I've already done what I said Okay. Oh, yes You got this. Thank you This is great. Oh All right, I'm taking them out. Oh, they look perfect. You guys are not gonna believe this I mean you are because you helped me check these out here Hold on. I don't want to burn my stomach. Here we go. Look at these babies Look at these. Oh, they're so good I'm gonna let them cool, but We could take one and Cut it and see how the inside came out Ooh perfection. Oh, ow on the pan Okay, but look It's smoking hot, baby Holy cow. That looks so good. You guys Edmonds, I'm impressed Edmonds, I am impressed. Sorry. Here we go Edmonds, I'm impressed Are the scones scones similar to American biscuit? No, they are similar if you make them Like that. These actually look pretty good. It's more so in the The American biscuit is going to be layers of flakiness. So like more butter This is more like a soft moist cake in the middle. Um, so You reckon it'd be good as your biscuits and gravy. I have a gravy on this. This is good. Okay, so I can't wait. Here we go Mmm. Wow, I'm impressed Mmm The the taste of cheese was the right It has a lot of flavor What cheese do you guys normally use? Oh, that's good Mmm. Oh, I need butter Mmm Mmm Well, that's good Butter jam and whipped cream even on cheese scones. You do that I guess You can always have whipped cream. I got whipped cream. I got jam Mmm Really even on cheese scones. Okay I like the way you roll a delt. Look how you roll Mmm. Oh, that's good Two thumbs up for me on the Edmonds scones They are really really good Oh my gosh, so good Anyway, hey, I know you know what I forgot to mention I was I So I have a big community on youtube and on tiktok and on different social In different situations and I have created a community that brings you all together It's free to come in come in It's just like if you want to be part of my community and we get to know each other And what am I going to do in the community? Well, there's a couple things that I have in my mind but like I think it's a good place to connect get to know each other better You know encourage each other just have community With people that like baking that like talking about new zealand that like travel um That wants to know things about the us like I think that this is a community So I think I put the link in the description. So go ahead and join the community. I would love to have you um You have a little bit more access to me and Just getting to know each other better because I love you guys. Thank you for another great episode I hope you enjoyed it. Please comment below. Let me know you what you want me to make next week And I'll see you next week