Fruit scones

Name: Fruit scones
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Yield: Makes: 12
Ingredients: 150 g butter or margarine; 500 g self raising flour; 325 ml milk; pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 tablespoons caster sugar

Preparation info

Makes:
12

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

I encourage you to go a little ‘off piste’ with this recipe. Replace the raisins with chopped, dried apricots and serve with apricot jam, or use dried cherries soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes and serve with a good cherry jam. This lifts a scone from traditional to bespoke.

Ingredients

500 g self raising flour
150 g butter or margarine
2

Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Put the flour, butter, sugar and salt into a food processor and blend until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. You can also do this by hand by rubbing the butter and flour between your fingers and thumbs and then adding the sugar. Add the baking powder and mix through.
Add the milk and whizz briefly until a soft dough starts to appear. Turn out onto a floured surfa