Recipe: Yummy Scones

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Scones. Real fresh scones, or bake using easy mix in just minutes. Delicious fresh scones delivered, or bake using our mixes. Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding a generous teaspoon of finely grated orange rind (zest) to the dry ingredients and substituting dried cranberries for the raisins.

Scones In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. I go on vacation with my best friend to Michigan every July. Her cousin is allowed to come, too—but only if she brings her special cherry scones! You can prepare Scones using 5 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you Prepare that.

Ingredients of Scones

  1. It's 6 cup of Self raising flour.
  2. It's 4 tbsp of White sugar.
  3. It's 100 grams of Butter, chopped.
  4. Prepare 2 cup of Milk.
  5. It's 1 of Egg, lightly beaten.

I make them with cranberries for the holidays. Don't try to double this recipe. Whether you slather yours in clotted cream, or dollop strawberry jam on first, this. For a sweet, flaky treat, bake Alton Brown's Scones recipe from Good Eats on Food Network.

Scones guidelines

  1. Pre-heat oven to 210*C..
  2. In a large mixing bowl, rub butter into flour and sugar..
  3. Now add milk and mix until dough like..
  4. Sprinkle a little flour into a board and roll out to around 1 & 1/2 to 2cm in height..
  5. Using a 6cm cookie cutter (or something similar), cut out scones and lay them out (closely) on a greased baking tray..
  6. Will make 12 to 15 scones..
  7. Brush egg over scones and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until they have risen and are golden brown..
  8. Serve with fresh whipped cream and your choice of jam (I like blackberry!)..
  9. This batch was my first ever- turned out perfect and so very nice. Definite keeper this recipe, enjoy!.

These scones are studded with dried currants for a fruity bite. English scones are not glazed or frosted, and they are generally spilt open and spread with butter, but sometimes also with clotted cream and jam (yes please!). Our scones tend to be richer and more cake-like, usually made with egg and with heavy cream or buttermilk. Brush scones with remaining heavy cream and for extra crunch, sprinkle with coarse sugar. (You can. Scones are not the blobs of cheap bread dough shaped in a triangle and liberally dosed with sugar that Americans think they are (present recipe excluded, of course).