Hello People,
Today in cooking class we made scones,they were a little bit tricky to make up the mix and our class has to re do the lesson because the mix was not right make sure not to put to much of the ingredients
Ingredients
3 c Plain Flour
6 t Baking Powder (level)
¼ t Salt
75g Cold Butter
1 to 1 ½ c Milk
2 T Sugar (optional)
Method
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl
Cut butter in small cubes. Rub the butter into the flour, baking powder,
salt gently with fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add sugar
(optional)
Add milk gradually. Mix quickly with a knife to form a soft dough
(the amount of milk required depends on a number of factors)
Lightly knead the scone dough a few times on a lightly floured tabletop
Pat dough out into a rectangular shape (about 2cm - 2.5 cm thick)
Cut scone dough into 8 - 10 even sized pieces
Place scones onto the oven tray lined with baking paper. Keep them
quite close together towards centre of the tray
Brush with milk
Bake at 200°C Bake for about 8 - 10 minutes until lightly golden
and cooked ( you can use Fanbake function)
Variations
Cheese Scones
Add ¾ c - 1c grated cheese, pinch of cayenne pepper after step 2
Before baking top with a little cheese
Sultana Scones
Add ¾ c sultanas after step 2
Date Scones
Add ¾ c chopped pitted dates after step 2
Accurate measurements are very important in this recipe
I found that my new group works a lot better than the last group I had