Blue cheese and chive scones

Name: Blue cheese and chive scones
Yield: Makes 12 scones
Ingredients: 200-250 g blue cheese, crumbled into small pieces; 50 g butter, cut into small pieces; A pinch of salt; About 150 ml single cream; 225 g plain flour; 3 tbsp chopped chives; 2 tsp baking powder

Preparation info

Makes
12
scones

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mark Hix on Baking

By Mark Hix

Published 2012

About

Scones bring back childhood, memories of Dorset cream teas, though these savoury versions — featuring nuggets of blue cheese — make great accompaniments for soups such as onion or watercress. If you don’t like blue cheese, try flavouring them with other hard grated cheeses such as Cheddar instead.

Ingredients

225 g plain flour
A pinch of salt
2 tsp

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/gas mark 3.

Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Rub in the butter until the mix has the texture of breadcrumbs, then slowly mix in just enough cream to form a stiff dough. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about