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Plain Oven Scones

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Category: Scottish

 Ingredients List

  • 8 oz SR flour
  • 2 oz Butter
  • 1 ts Caster sugar
  • 1/4 pt Buttermilk, full cream milk
  • Or soured milk
  • pn Salt

 Directions

Set oven to 450F or Mark 8. Grease and tlour a baking sheet. Sift the dry
ingredients into a bowl and rub in the butter. Add suf icient Of the milk
to make a moist and spongy dough. Turn out on to a floured surface and
knead gently. Roll out to 1/2 inch thickness and cut into rounds with a 2
1/2 inch pastry cutter. Place on the baking sheet. Brush the tops with
milk and bake for 8-10 minutes until risen and light golden in colour. Cool
on a wire rack. Serve split in half with butter and jam.

For rich scones add 1 beaten egg to the dry ingredients before adding
sufficient milk. Brush the tops of the scone with beaten egg rather than
with milk.

From the booklet Scottish Teatime Recipes

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