Traditional English Tea Scones
Your tea party will be a great hit with these wonderful Traditional English Tea Scones!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 8 scones 1x
- Category: Bread
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: British
Ingredients
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1 3/4 cups self-rising flour
1 1/2 ounces butter (room temperature)
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 tablespoons refined sugar
A pinch of salt
A little extra flour
2 ounces raisins (or more if you like lots of raisins)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Sift the flour into a bowl and rub in the butter rapidly using a pastry cutter or your fingertips.
- Stir in the sugar, raisins and salt, then take a knife and use it to mix in the milk little by little.
- Flour your hands a little and knead the mixture to a soft dough, adding a little drop more milk if it feels too dry.
- Turn the dough onto a floured board and roll it out to a thickness of not less than 3/4 inch using a lightly floured rolling pin. Take a 1 1/2- or 2-inch pastry cutter and place it on the dough, then tap it sharply so that it goes straight through the dough. Don’t twist it or the scones will turn out a peculiar shape. After you have cut out as many scones as you can like that, knead the dough trimmings together and repeat until you have used it all.
- Place the scones on a greased cookie sheet (I use a baking stone), dust each one with a little extra flour and bake near the top of the oven for 12 to 15 minutes. When baked, the scones will have turned a crisp golden brown.
- Cool on a wire rack and eat them slightly warm, still crisp on the outside and soft and light inside.
- Always eat scones as fresh as possible as they go stale very quickly.
Notes
Find it online: https://simplygreatrecipes.com/traditional-english-tea-scones/