Scones

 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

1. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl

2. Cut butter in small cubes. Rub the butter into the flour, baking powder,

3. salt gently with fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add sugar

4. (optional)

5. Add milk gradually. Mix quickly with a knife to form a soft dough

6. (the amount of milk required depends on a number of factors)

7. Lightly knead the scone dough a few times on a lightly floured tabletop

8. Pat dough out into a rectangular shape (about 2cm - 2.5 cm thick)

9. Cut scone dough into 8 - 10 even sized pieces 

10. Place scones onto the oven tray lined with baking paper. Keep them

11. quite close together towards centre of the tray

12. Brush with milk

13. Bake at 200°C  Bake for  about 8 - 10 minutes until lightly golden

14. and cooked ( you can use Fanbake function)

Variations

1. Cheese Scones

Add ¾ c - 1c grated cheese, pinch of cayenne pepper after step 2

Before baking top with a little cheese

2. Sultana Scones 

Add ¾ c sultanas after step 2

3. 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