Scones
Time: 30 min Yields: scones Cost: $0.23 per scone Difficulty: 4/10
From the Commonsense Cookery Book, my copy is the centenary edition, a birthday present years ago from Dad. His note in the front makes deliberate mention of the pandemic to anchor it in time. The cooking time is a lot longer than it should be because my oven is lazy at times. I tried to shape them like hamburger patties but I’ll cut them from here on. Serve warm with lemon butter and thickened cream. The book instructs you to tear them open rather than cutting with a knife, thems the rules.
Ingredients
- SR flour 2 cups
- Salt 0.25 tsp
- Butter 60 grams
- Milk 1 cup
Steps
- Preheat oven to 240 degrees conventional.
- Into large bowl sift flour and salt.
- Dice butter and rub into flour mix lightly.
- Reserving a little for glazing, pour the milk into the mixture and mix quickly into a soft dough. Don't overwork.
- Turn onto floured bench and knead lightly and quickly, then roll out to a 2 cm thick round.
- Cut with a sharp floured knife. Can cut 8 pieces like a pizza, squared or use a round cookie cutter.
- Arrange close together on baking tray, glaze with milk and bake for 14 minutes.
