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Recipe for A Delicious Favorite 20-Minute Scone recipe for the next tea time with friends
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A Delicious Favorite 20 Minute Scone
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 12 1x
Description
Scones, a delicious favorite in our home and then to top it off, so quick to prepare and have ready for the family for teatime.
Ingredients
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- 2 1/2 cup flour or self-raising flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 egg
- 180 ml milk or sour milk
Instructions
- Mix egg and milk together and in a separate bowl, sift flour and baking powder.
- Add salt and rub in the butter.
- Add sugar, then mix lightly.
- Gradually add the milk and egg mixture and mix gently, do not over mix
- Once the dough comes together, place it on a floured surface, and flatten till about 2 cm.
- Cut into scone shapes.
- Brush with egg.
- Bake at 200 C / 400F for 20 minutes.
- Serve with cream and grenadilla or any other topping of your choice. So many options and absolutely delicious toppings to try it.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Jennifer from SA Tasty Recipes – Awesome Daily Recipes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 205
- Sugar: 8
- Sodium: 272
- Fat: 3
- Saturated Fat: 2
- Unsaturated Fat: 1
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 38
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 6
- Cholesterol: 23
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How do I get Scones to rise and be fluffy?
- Use good quality ingredients.
- First, make sure you’re using fresh baking powder, one that has been opened less than 6 months ago.
- Don’t soften your butter as cold butter makes scones rise higher.
- If it’s hot in your kitchen, freeze your butter before making scones.
- Measure your flour, DO NOT scoop it with the cup as this will cause you to pack the flour into the cup and you’ll end up with too much flour.
- Cut your butter into cubes.
- Also, if you knead the dough too much, the scones won’t rise as tall.
- Knead gently, and just enough to bring the dough together, so mix gently, do not over-mix. Avoid over-mixing the dough. Too much stirring will toughen your scones.
- Adding more flour also prevents the dough from rising as high, so only dust lightly.
- Keep the scones as cold as possible until they are ready to go into the oven. This will make them rise better.
- Make sure your oven is fully preheated before baking the scones.
The most accurate way of measuring flour would be to weigh the flour on a kitchen scale.
- One cup of white flour weighs 125 grams.
- One cup of whole wheat flour weighs 140 grams.
- One cup of bread flour weighs 130 grams.
- One cup of cake flour weighs 114 grams.
These scones are awesome and looking too delicious. I just loved them!!
Hi Abida – Thanks for your kind words and glad to hear that you like these scones. Thanks for letting me know.
I value the tips at the end of the recipe. My scones hardly ever turn out well and now I know why!
Hi Gloria, Glad that those tips may help you, I have also been struggling but since I started to use them, it’s all good now. Enjoy
I love scones! I’ve never tried making them before, but I’m definitely going to try making these.
Hi Terri, I hope you will enjoy these as well. Please if you have a moment, your feedback will be much appreciated
I also love scones! My grandmother used to make them perfectly! I have, however, almost given up on cakes, biscuits and other baked goods, in the name of good health. I might make an exception for a tasty batch of scones though! Thanks for this recipe, it looks great!
Cheryl, should you decide to make this, enjoy it and let us know what you think of this one.
I love scones. So much better than biscuits! These do look easy and delicious. Thanks for sharing.
Dear Laurie, Glad you like it and hope you will have time to try and enjoy it as well.
I love a scone, saving this recipe. Are you jam or cream first?
Jam on the scone and topped with cream, delicious
Same for me!
For me in any case, it will be impossible to spread jam on cream 🙂