Scones

No baking blog can be complete without including scones.  Plain, fruit, cherry or wheaten, everybody has a favourite. Like most things baked, scones are best served with loads of butter and jam. Or you could go with a  la di da  English tea and add clotted cream as well.  This recipe is for buttermilk scones.

Ingredients

350g self-raising flour

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

a good pinch of salt

2 tablespoons(or 1 if desired, I found 1 wasn't sweet enough for my taste)

85g butter

280ml buttermilk

 

Oven 200c.

 

To start off I put the dry ingredients into a bowl with the butter and rub them together lightly with my fingertips until all the lumps are gone and the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

 

 

I then gradually add the buttermilk and bind all the ingredients together.

 

 

I add the fruit and lightly kneed just enough to smooth out the ingredients.

 

 

 

I don't believe in using cutters for home baking. It doesn't have to be exact circles but I do measure each piece of dough to around 120g. I form these into scones then brush a little egg onto them.

 

 

 

Into the oven.....

 

 

 

Enjoy.