How to Prepare Delicious English Scones

English Scones.

You can have English Scones using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of English Scones

1. You need 260 grams of all purpose flour.
2. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
3. You need 120 ml of milk.
4. It's 50 grams of sugar.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 large of egg.
7. Prepare 75 grams of unsalted butter.

English Scones instructions

1. Preheat oven 200degrees celcius or equivilant.
2. Grease baking sheet.
3. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl and mix together to make sure well combined.
4. Crack the egg into the milk and whisk until well combined.
5. Dot the butter into the bowl with the flour mix and using fingertips blend until resembles course breadcrumbs.
6. Add the milk and egg mixture to the bowl a little at a time using a wooden spoon until forms a dough. Do not over mix. You may not need all the egg and milk. Stop adding when all ingredients are combined into a dough thats not too wet and sticky.
7. Dust work surface and hands with flour, turn the dough out and knead quickly into a ball. Pat the ball of dough down with your hand and then roll so the dough its 1-2 cms high..
8. Using a lightly floured cookie cutter or other round implement cut out your scones from the dough. Ball up the leftover dough, re-roll and cut some more scones until you run out of dough.
9. Place scones on greased baking sheet well spaced. Either brush with milk for a brown top or dust with flour depending on your preferance..
10. Put baking sheet into middle of oven. The scones take approx 15-20 mins. They should have risen and be lightly browned. To test if cooked put a toothpick into the centre of one, it should come out clean..
11. Leave to cool down a bit on a wire rack.
12. Serve with butter or thick cream (clotted cream is best) and jam of your choice. Instead of jam you could use fresh fruit. Sliced strawberries are good :).