Scones. A scone (/skoʊn/, also UK: /skɒn/) is a baked good, usually made of wheat, or oatmeal with baking powder as a leavening agent and baked on sheet pans. This is a basic scone recipe that you can keep plain or you can add mix-ins to make something more like an American style bakery scone. Scones are the easiest British teatime treat and chances are that you will have all the ingredients for this recipe already.
You can cook Scones using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Scones
- Prepare of self-raising flour.
- You need of baking powder.
- Prepare of sugar.
- You need of salt.
- It’s of cold butter cubed.
- Prepare of milk.
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Scones instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 220°C. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper..
In a large bowl, sift in the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt..
Make a hole in the middle of the mixture and add the milk..
Use a metal knife and with a cutting motion mix in the milk. Rotate the bowl as you cut through the mixture until the dough comes together in clumps and is slightly damp. You might have to fold the dough a few times to get it mixed properly. Make sure not to over work your dough, this is a little known trick that will give you higher scones..
Flour your hands and a kitchen surface, gently gather up the dough, place on the floured surface and pat down with a light hand to about 2cm thick..
Use a floured 7,5cm round cutter or glass to cut out the scones and place them on the baking tray not to close together. Put the left over dough together and repeat. This should give you about 10 scones..
Brush the tops with milk and place in middle of the oven for 12 to 15 minutes until the tops are golden and they have risen well..
Enjoy straight away..
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