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The Puyallup Fair Original Scone Recipe

Source of Recipe


From "Doin' the Puyallup," by Val Dumond



List of Ingredients



• 2½ cups Fisher's Blend Flour
  
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
  
• 2 Tbsp sugar
  
• ½ tsp salt
  
• 6 Tbsp shortening
  
• ½ cup raisins
  
• 2/3 cup milk
  






Instructions



1. Sift and measure the flour. Re-sift with baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut shortening into the dry ingredients with knives or pastry blender. Add raisins to dry ingredients, and add the milk to the mixture.
   
   Turn out mixture onto floured board; divide into two pieces, rolling each to thickness of biscuits. Cut each into four wedge-shaped pieces like pie and bake 15 minutes at 450 degrees (F).
   
   To serve:
   Split open but do not cut clear through, butter and fill with raspberry jam.
   
   






Final Comments


"To promote the use of its high-quality flour, Fisher came up with the idea of selling piping-hot scones at major fairs, starting out at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and soon after at the Puyallup Fair in Washington state. Those delicious Fisher Fair Scones quickly attracted a loyal following. To this day, our original scone recipe continues to delight millions each year as we serve them from the very same booth at the Puyallup Fair where the tradition started nearly 100 years ago."