Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, english scones. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
I like putting some raisins in the dough …like an English scone and use butter milk (warm milk and a squeeze of lemon juice. Let it sit for five or ten minutes). The scones turned out so light & soft.
English Scones is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. English Scones is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have english scones using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make English Scones:
- Prepare 200 grams all-purpose flour
- Make ready 50 grams caster sugar
- Prepare 50 grams butter, slightly softened
- Take 75 ml milk
- Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare raisins
- Prepare all-purpose flour, for dusting
- Prepare milk, for brushing
- Make ready 1 small egg
Quick and Easy to make, moist, light and fluffy! Back in those days, Hong Kong was a British Colony, and was very 'British', so my school was English as were the teachers. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Instructions to make English Scones:
- Mix the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
- Rub in butter with fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add in milk and raisins (if using) and knead gently to make a rough dough.
- Turn the dough out on counter, lightly dusted with flour, and knead until smooth. Add milk if dough is too dry, and flour if otherwise.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1 cm, and cut out round shapes with a small glass or cookie cutter. You can also shape the dough with your hands.
- Brush the tops with egg and milk mixture.
- Place on cookie sheets with spaces between and bake in preheated oven at 190℃ for about 13 minutes or until slightly golden brown.
- Serve warm with honey or jam.
British scones are small nibbles that are fairly plain on their own, but are classically eaten with jam and clotted cream, making for a real treat. When you first try an authentic British scone, you might be tempted to think of it as a biscuit. (Unless, of course, you're from the southern US, where biscuit-making is an art. Scones are an intrinsic part of both British and Irish cooking. The classic scone in this recipe has been mixed, baked, and eaten on these islands for centuries and are as popular today as they ever were. English scones contain more leavening agent than you would normally use for this amount of flour but you want them to rise high in a short time.
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