Cheese Scones

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    12

    scones.
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Farmhouse Kitchen

By Audrey Ellis

Published 1971

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Ingredients

  • 8 oz. plain flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon

Method

Sieve together the flour, salt, mustard, cayenne pepper, bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar. Rub in the butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add cheese. Bind together with milk to form a soft dough. Turn on to a lightly floured working surface and roll out ½ inch thick. Cut into rounds, using 2 inch plain cutter, flouring the cutter each time. Put the scones on to a lightly flo