Recipe for English Traditional Scones

Ingredients

55g butter
225g self-raising flour
a pinch of salt
25g caster sugar
150ml milk

Instructions

- Firstly heat the oven to 220C.
- Mix together the salt, flour and butter.
- Stir in the caster sugar and then the milk until you get soft dough.
- Turn the dough onto a floured work area and knead lightly.
- Pat to around 2cm thick. Using a 5cm cutter, stamp out the rounds and place them on a lightly greased baking sheet.
- Knead together the rest of the dough and stamp out more scones to use up all of the mix.
- Brush the tops of the scones with a little milk.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden.
- Cool on a wire rack and serve with butter / jam / clotted cream.