Scottish Scones
By: dad1337
Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 9:38am

Ingredients




¾ cup of milk (you can substitute buttermilk for a rich alternative)
1 egg beaten
2 cups flour - sifted
2 tbs sugar
1 tbs baking powder
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup of butter = 5 1/3 tbs.cut to small cubes

Preparation

1 Set oven to 425º with rack in the center.  Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl add the butter and using the pastry cutter cut in the butter until you have a mixture with the consistency of corn meal. Add the egg and milk and stir only until no flour shows.  If the mixture is dry or stiff add a little more milk you should have a slightly gooey and moist dough.  Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead very gently 15 times (baking powder dough doesn't like to be worked too much).  Once kneaded cut dough in half and shape each half into  a ball.  Press the ball down to form a round and cut into 8 pieces.  Place the pieces onto a greased cookie sheet spacing them as they will rise while baking.  Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly golden brown.

About

There is I think nothing as satisfying as  hot scones on a cold morning, or for that matter on any morning.  Warm, buttered with a dollop of jam and these flaky tasty morsel brighten any morning.  They are as good cooled so you don't have to worry about not finishing the plate at one sitting.