Griddle breads with toasted goats’ cheese

Name: Griddle breads with toasted goats’ cheese
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil; Lemon quarters; About 300 ml buttermilk; 350 g Greek haloumi cheese or similar; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; ½ tsp salt; 600 g self-raising flour

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

About

The cheese can be toasted on whatever implement you use to cook the bread. For really crusty cheese, I like a Welsh version of the Greek haloumi: Cefyn goats’ cheese, chewy and salty.

Ingredients

600 g self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp

Snack
Side dish
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add the buttermilk and fork well until all the flour is wet – the wetter the mix, the softer the scone.

Meanwhile, set a bakestone, griddle or heavy frying pan to heat gently over a steady, even heat source.

Tip the dough out on to a well-floured board. Sprinkle with flour, then form the dough quickly into a ball with your fingertips, and cu