Scones - Secret Recipe

This recipe will make approx 12 lovely scones, and takes only 30mins.

Ingredients

1/4 pack butter - approx 62.5g - melted

2 cups of flour + 2 x the volume of the melted butter

1 tablespoon of sugar

1 cup of butter milk

In summary it's 2 parts dry to 1 wet parts wet.

Method - Scones

Mix the sugar and flour together in a bowl. These are your dry ingredients.

If you haven't already, melt the butter into a liquid. The microwave does this well - few seconds at a time until its liquid or you will be cleaning that microwave.

Add the melted butter to the butter milk and give it a bit of a stir.

Make a hole in the dry ingredients, and add the wet ingredients

Mix gently to make into a soft dough

Flour a surface lightly so the dough doesn't stick, and also a little flour on top so the rolling pin doesn't stick.

Roll out to around 1cm - if you're doing it right - there won't be any cracks in the dough.

Use a pastry cutter to create round pucks. Don't waste any of the dough - just remix the off cuts, roll out and cut some more pucks. Good luck with the last one - it will look nasty. That will be yours.

Place them on a oven tray - the ugly one will need its own tray as it doesn't look aesthetically pleasing along side all the previously perfectly formed pucks.

Brush with a little milk

Bake in the oven for 10-14 mins at 220c.

Put the kettle on and make a pot of tea.

Keep an eye on the scones until they turn a nice golden colour on top.

Rest in a tea towel on a wire rack.

Best eaten there and then while they are hot with some butter and jam.

Grab that big ugly one that was the last one made, use some extra jam as you deserve a reward for making the scones, and enjoy with that tea you've just made.

Delicious!