My friend came over yesterday and showed me how to make proper English Scones. When our family are out and about touring it is always a treat to stop at a little tea shop and have a cup of tea and a scone. I will miss that when we return to the states, but now I can make my very own:)
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| Ingredients flour, sugar, salt, margarine, egg, milk, raisins baking powder |
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sift 8 oz self raising flour, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 2 oz sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
then add 2 oz soften (not melted) margarine and crumpled into the mixture by hand |
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| add 1 beaten egg and gradually add milk (very little at a time) until the the mixture all sticks together |
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| add 1/2 cup raisins, mix but don't over handle the dough to much |
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| place into a greased round tin, this batter will raise so spread it out. |
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| You can add lines with a knife if you like |
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| brush a little egg or milk to the top |
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| Bake for approx. 20-30 minutes at 350 degrees. Use the tooth pick test to see if the inside is done |
You can add butter, jam to your scone but the way my family likes it is:
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| to add lots of clotted cream |
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| Then add raspberry or strawberry jam to it and serve with a fresh pot of English tea!!! |
This is an excellent recipe. Not sure if you can find clotted cream in the states but it is the best cream ever!!!!
Enjoy:)!
Yea! Another yummy English recipe to pin! Do the English use self-rising flour a lot? I actually had a bit of trouble finding it to make to sponge cake. I think people here tend to just use regular flour and add baking powder/soda as needed. It would be an interesting study to see why the English use self-rising and the Americans don't!
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ReplyDeletefyi, to make self raising flour from plain (all purpose) flour, add 2 tsps baking powder per cup of flour.
Yeah, we do use SR flour a lot - very lazy, we are!!
Anna-Marie, did you notice the missing ingredient in the photograph? Was that significant do you think??? ;-D
Did the Viking appreciate the scones??
oops just fixed that...my husband loved them, ate the all up and wants me to bake some more:)
ReplyDeleteI made scones a few weeks ago from scone mix. My friend gave it to use when she moved. They were pretty good. Thanks for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteI love scones. Thanks you for the tutorial. These are probably the real scones; they don't look Americanized.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and hugs!
These look divine!!
ReplyDeleteGreat lesson in scone making...thank you for linking to Memoir Monday!