Homemade Scones

SCONES SCONES SCONES

- Easy to make but so delicious warm out of the oven especially with homemade jam on top!

 Ingredients: 

450g self-raising flour

1 tsp salt

100g butter

300ml fresh milk.

sultanas

Sift flour and salt into a bowl. Rub butter into the flour until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. (add sultanas if desired here) Add the milk all at once and mix to a soft sticky dough. turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead quickly until smooth. roll or press out to about 1cm thick. Cut and place onto a greased and floured baking pan. Bake at 230 degrees (Fan oven 210 degrees)  for 8 - 10 minutes. (Tap the bottom and if they are hollow sounding they are cooked through).

Serve whilst warm with butter, jam - and for that decadent touch - some cream!

VARIATIONS:

Lavender Scones:  

Instead of mixed fruit soak 
the milk in dried lavender 
flowers for about 2 hours and 
strain before using - very different 
but delicious.

Buttermilk Scones:

swop milk for buttermilk 
but cut down on the butter 
to 80gms then bake as usual.

Cheese Scones:  
add 2 tsp of mustard powder and a pinch of cayenne pepper with the flour and mix in 100gms of grated cheddar before adding milk.

Honey Scones: 
add 30ml (warmed) honey with 220 mls of milk (instead of 300mls)

Granary Herb Scones:

Use 450 g Granary flour instead of self raising flour BUT add 1 tsb baking powder and 1 tsb oregano. Serve with Cheese and Relish.