Hot Cheesy Scones with Poppy Seeds

Name: Hot Cheesy Scones with Poppy Seeds
Yield: Makes 9
Ingredients: 12 oz/340 g self-raising flour; 1 egg, beaten with 1 tbsp sunflower oil; Just less than ½ pint/285 ml milk; 4 oz/112 g strong Cheddar cheese, grated; 1 rounded tbsp poppy seeds; ½ rounded tsp salt; 1 rounded tsp baking powder; 2 rounded tsp mustard powder; 1 egg, beaten with 1 tbsp sunflower oil

Preparation info

Makes
9

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

These are most useful to serve with summery soups, or with any salad first course.

Ingredients

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

Summer
Winter
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl and stir in the egg, sunflower oil and milk. Add the cheese and knead all the ingredients together well – it will be a rather sticky mixture.

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