I love making scones. They’re super quick, extraordinarily easy and everyone I know has a soft spot for them. Everyone.
Scones
- 600g self raising flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup cream
- good pinch of salt
- a good heaped tbsp caster sugar
- Preheat oven to a hot oven
- Combine the ingredients using a palette knife until barely combined
- Turn out onto a lightly floured bench and working quickly with a light hand, combine into a dough
- Roll out to about 2cm thick
- Cut out rounds (I use a vegemite glass) and place close to each other on a baking tray
- Brush the tops lightly with some milk
- Bake in a hot oven for 12-15 minutes
- Serve w/ jam and lightly whipped cream
Mixing it up…
A dear friend of mine at work, Angela, mentioned her lemonade scones to me one day and then I saw a recipe for them over at The cook and the chef website (I LOVE that show), so last weekend I tried them.
Lemonade scones
- 1 cup cream
- 1 cup lemonade
- 3 cups self raising flour
- Mix together and bake as above.
I thought they were weird. They looked like scones, they rose like scones but they had a weird lemonade flavour. We started joking around:
– ginger and date scones – using ginger beer
– coke scones
– fanta scones
I’m glad I tried them but I doubt I’d ever make that version again.