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Basic Scones

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, recipes for dessert, recipes for scones, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using cow milk, recipes using granulated sugar, recipes using wheat flour, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ABasic_Scones)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ABasic%20Scones&oldid=4523331

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (100 g) flour
  • 1 tsp (5 g) baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 2 tbsp (30 g) butter
  • 1 tbsp (15 g) granulated sugar
  • ½ cup (125 ml) milk + extra milk for glazing

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450° F (225° C).
  2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Rub in butter. Add sugar. Add the milk and mix with a knife until obtaining a soft, not sticky, dough.
  3. Turn the dough on to a lightly floured board and knead it quickly until it is smooth.
  4. Roll out the dough to about ½ inch (12 mm) thickness. Cut 16 rounds with a 2-inch fluted cookie cutter and transfer them to a buttered cookie sheet. Brush the tops with milk.
  5. Bake towards top of the hot oven for 8–10 minutes or until well risen and golden brown.
  6. Cool on a wire rack.
  7. Serve tea scones with butter, whipped cream, and jam.

Notes

Raisin scones: add 1–2 tbsp raisins with the sugar.

Lemon and raisin scones: add 1 tsp finely-grated lemon peel and 1–2 tbsp raisins with the sugar.

Orange and cherry scones: add 1 tsp finely-grated orange peel and 1–2 tbsp finely chopped candied cherries, washed and dried, with the sugar.

Date and walnut scones: add 1 tbsp finely-chopped dates and 1 tbsp finely-chopped shelled walnuts with the sugar.

Cinnamon scones: sift 1 tsp cinnamon with the flour.

Ginger scones: sift ½ tsp ground ginger with flour.

Honey scones: use 1 tbsp honey and reduce the ½ cup milk to 7 tbsp.

Chocolate chip: mix in 2 tbsp chocolate chips