Butter Scones.
You can have Butter Scones using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Butter Scones
- Prepare of plain flour.
- You need of baking powder.
- It’s of salt.
- Prepare of butter (cold and cut into pieces).
- Prepare of caster sugar.
- It’s of dried fruit (optional).
- It’s of egg.
- You need of milk.
Butter Scones step by step
Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4..
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and rub in using you fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and dried fruit..
Lightly whisk the egg with the milk and add to the flour mixture. Stir well until the mixture comes together to form a slightly sticky dough, then tip out onto a floured surface..
Using floured hands lightly knead the dough then using a floured rolling pin roll out the dough until it is 2 cm thick. Cut out shapes using a pastry cutter and carefully transfer them to a baking tray..
Brush the tops of the scones with a little milk and bake for 12-15 mins until lightly browned. Remove from the oven and transfer the scones to a cooling rack..
