Pink Saturday/My BoJon Heritage/Happy Easter/

Happy Pink Saturday to everyone! Please stop by to visit Beverly and all the Pinkies too. Make sure to check out the giveaway at A Simple cottage Life. The button is on my sidebar and the giveway photo belongs to the delightful owner of the blog who is giving away the wonderful items pictured there.

This beautiful photo is a confirmation photo and these two kids were my mom's cousins. Their last name was Krall but I am not sure which two kids they are. I wish they wrote names and dates on more of these old photos. I love their dressy clothes. Being confirmed is still an important part of Catholic  church life.

Look at this array of beautifully painted Easter eggs. You know for Christians  eggs stand for new life and zegec is blessing of the baskets of food.  Velika noc means Great Night. In  sLOVEnia Easter is celebrated with lots of good food including krofi pictured here:

My mom made krofi every holiday and they were so good, I liked to slice one in half and add a piece of ham. Oh my those memories were on my mind.

 I am glad no bunnies were found in our Easter ham!   I am very proud of my BoJon heritage and I am going to find a way so that I can recreate those traditional foods. Living in the high altitude is tricky when baking and especially when baking items that are filled with yeast. My mom baked the lightest loaves of bread but could not create a pie crust for anything! I can not make a pie crust from scratch but if you give me a bread maker I can make a tasty loaf of bread.

Vesele Velokonocne Praznike and in English: Happy Easter! I wish I knew the language my folks were fluent in. But their parents came from Slovenia which formerly were known as Yugoslavia. They were very proud of their heritage.

   Cherry Rose Scones

  Ingredients:

1. 2½ cups all-purpose flour
2. ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
3. 2 teaspoons baking powder
4. ½ teaspoon salt
5. ½ cup cold unsalted butter, cubed
6. 1 (3-ounce) package cold cream cheese, cubed
7. 1 (2-ounce) package dehydrated cherries*, finely chopped
8. ⅓ cup heavy cream
9. 1 teaspoon rose water†
10. ¼ teaspoon cherry extract
11. ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375˚. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, ½ cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter and cream cheese until mixture is crumbly. Add dehydrated cherries, and stir to combine. Combine cream, rose water, cherry extract, and vanilla extract. Add cream mixture to flour mixture, and stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.
3. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to ¾-inch thickness. Using a 2-inch round cutter, cut scones. Place scones on prepared baking sheets, and sprinkle evenly with remaining sugar. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes, or until light golden brown.

Notes

1. *For testing purposes our test kitchen used Organic Just Cherries, which can be purchased at specialty-foods stores or at justtomatoes.com.
2. †Rose water can be purchased at Middle Eastern markets, specialty-foods stores, or at americanspice.com.

The recipe and photo are courtesy of Tea Time the tea loving magazine. I thought that sweet photo would be perfect at Pink Saturday and some of you might like the recipe.  You might like to know that a black tea is best served with these tasty scones.

A little chuckle from Maxine to end today's post. Next week I will share some news about the mother of the groom dress I finally found! Have a terrific weekend.