Scones (rock/rough buns)

I must confess I didn't know the real name for these until I started learning how to cook. I always called them rock/rough buns like they did in Ghana. LOL. Very simple but yet yummy scones. Can be great for tea for breakfast or just a snack.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of flour
• 5 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1 egg (beaten)
• 1 cup of milk 
• 3/4 cup of butter (1 stick and a half)
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup of dried fruits like raisins could be added if you want it different from the plain old scones

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F(175 degrees C)
2. Grease your muffin pan or baking sheet
3. Combine flour,butter,nutmeg,salt and baking powder. Mix it well it you have a bread crumb like texture, then add your sugar
4. In a separate bowl mix your milk and egg, and slowly stir it in the flour mix until its moistened. 



Bread crumb like texture



After adding the liquid ingredients, ready for the oven

5. Put a tablespoon or 1/4 cup full in the muffin pans OR turn out dough on to a very light flour surface, knead very briefly. Roll out the dough into 1/2 inch thick round and cut into 8 piece, place each piece on the baking sheet and bake for about 15-20 minutes

Before coating with milk

In the oven almost ready

I just made medium sized balls and baked it in a greased pan

These are not so rough buns but close lol

Meat pie

Meat pie is one kind of pastries that you would find at almost every party or occasion in Ghana. I love it. You can add meat,tuna or corned beef in it and it tastes just as yummy


Fill in ingredients:

• For the tuna fill in: all you need is about 4 tins of tuna. 1 onion(finely chopped). salt and black or white pepper to taste. Mix together and just add to pie
• For the corned beef fill in: 2 or 3 tins of corned beef. 1 onion (finely chopped) pepper to taste because most corned beef are already salty. Mix together, add to pie

• Minced meat(Ground beef)
• 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
• 1 or 2 Onions
• A little tiny bit of jalepeno pepper
• 1 table spoon of tomato paste
• 1 stalk of scallions [Not for blending.]

Method for the fill in:

1. Steam the minced meat.
2. While that's steaming, blend the onions,ginger and pepper with 1/3 cup of water.
3. Pour the oil out of the minced meat. Allow the meat to cool down.
4. Put the blended ingredients in a cooking pot, with a tablespoon of oil, allow it to boil for a while. Then mix in the tomato paste. Let it cook for about 15mins [with constant stirring]
5. Mix in the meat[you can add corned beef because the minced meat shrinks & doesn't look a lot and also because the corned beef gives it a different taste.]
6. Mix in the chopped scallions & onions.
7. Season with black pepper & seasoning salt.
8. Allow it to cook for awhile. Taste and season to your taste.  Then let it cool for awhile before adding it to the pie.
9. Brush the pie with eggs before putting it in the oven 

Ingredients for dough:

• 2 lbs butter or margarine [8 sticks for those in the U.S]
• 5 lbs flour [1 bag]
• 2 tablespoons nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons salt.
• Cold water to mix into dough.
• Eggs or evaporated milk (this is for coating the pie)

Method for the dough: 

1. Preheat oven at 375 degrees F(190 degrees C)
2. Mix flour,butter, nutmeg & salt.
3. Add the water slowly while mixing with fingertips till dough forms.
4. If the dough is mixed well it wouldn't stick to surface when trying to roll.
5. Roll till you get about 2in (5mm) thickness
6. Use a small circular bowl or if you have a meat pie cutter you can use that to make round cuts
7. Remove any excess dough on the edges, add your fillin to the center,add  enough fill in that you would be able to close it.
8. Fold one part of the dough to meet the other. Use water on the inside edges of the pie and then use a fork to close edges closely together (Ps: The water is to make sure the pie stays closed)
9. Put into greased pan.

Can make it in any shape you want it. The different shapes represented the kind of meat in there.