Maple Oat Nut Scones

This is a variation of the Maple Nut Scones I put in my very first cookbook years ago, and it’s the same basic recipe I’ve used since 1999, when I first made maple nut scones for my friend Hyacinth when she came over to play one day.

At the time, I had two babies and had just gotten a new espresso machine and I wanted to duplicate my favorite Starbucks scones ever (do they even still serve this variety?), and boy oh boy…did it work. Hy and I loved every bite.

Fun fact about my espresso machine: It was during the course of my owning this machine that I became aware that I had a condition called PSVT (Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia). I drank such strong espresso that it sent my heart into 2-minute (sometimes longer) episodes of extremely rapid beating, and the only way for me to get it to stop was to splash ice cold water on my face and pray the rosary. After giving up caffeine and finding the heart-racing episodes were still happening more and more, I had to start taking beta blockers, which made me want to take 24-hour naps every day and not speak, so ultimately I decided to have an curative ablation procedure, where doctors used a catheter to enter my heart and zap the pathway that was causing the electrical instability. It was an outpatient procedure, it totally cured me, and I’ve been enjoying iced coffee every morning ever since.

Oh. I didn’t mean the doctors entered my heart. That would be cramped. I meant they used a catheter to access my heart so they could ablate the pathway causing the problem.

I mean…

Never mind.

Okay, now that I’ve subjected you to my complete medical history and you have no appetite whatsoever, here’s what you need for the scones! Butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cream, eggs, maple extract, and oats.

Simple stuff!

My original scones didn’t have oats in them, so for these I decided to try to be as close to Starbucks as I could: Add some regular oats into a food processor or blender…

And pulse them until they’re mostly ground up but with some remaining bigger pieces.

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