Fresh Herb Scones

Name: Fresh Herb Scones
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: Just less than ½ pint/285 ml milk; 1 tbsp sunflower seed oil; 1 egg, beaten; 1 rounded tsp baking powder; 3 rounded tbsp finely chopped herbs, e.g. parsley, chives and fennel; ½ rounded tsp salt; 12 oz/340 g self-raising flour

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

Use any fresh herbs or just lots of finely chopped parsley, flat-leafed if possible for maximum flavour.

Ingredients

12 oz/340 g self-raising flour
½ rounded tsp salt

Vegetarian
Winter
Bread

Method

Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl and stir in the egg, oil, milk and herbs. Knead together well – it will be quite a sticky dough.

Pat the mixture out on a well-floured surface, to a thickness of about 1 inch/2.5