Stonestead Devonshire Tea Scones

11:30 am on 21 July 2014

Ingredients

  • knob of butter, melted in microwave
  • 4-5 cupfuls of flour
  • teaspoon of salt
  • 8 scoops baking powder
  • 500 mls (jug full)
  • milk

Method

Mix the water with the melted butter.

Add to dry ingredients

Add milk until the consistency is right (50-60 mls milk approx). The consistency has to feel right

Sprinkle top with flour. Scoop out onto a board. Knead into a long sausage.

Cut with round cookie cutter. Spread each bit out.

Then add key ingredient – date, sultana, cheese, plain – fold it up and re-shape with the cutter.

Put it in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Simple!

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