Scones

Probably just about anyone can make these, but you never know, the day may come when you don't remember how to make a scone, or you might be looking at this and not know how to make them...or something. Anyway, here it is!

Ingredients

250g plain flour
50g margarine
Quarter of a pint of milk
5mls cream of tartar
2.5 mls bicarbonate of soda
1.25mls milk (separate from above)

Plus: For fruit scones

50g sugar
100g dried fruit
Milk wash

For cheese scones

100g grated cheese
2.5mls dried mustard
Egg wash

Instructions

• Preheat oven to gas mark 8 or 230 degrees C


• Sieve flour, salt, cream of tartar and bicab together.


• Rub in margarine (telling anyone who doesn't know, how to do this, isn't something I think I can do in writing! Ask your mother, or something!)


• Add fruit and sugar or cheese and mustard. Mix in well.


• Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add most of the milk. Mix this until it becomes a spongy dough, working as lightly and quickly as possible. Though, actually, as scones are a favourite thing for children to make, and they're not known for quickness or lightness of hand in these things, I don't suppose it matters that much!


• Roll out the dough to about 2 centimetres thickness (about the width of a knife blade)


• Cut into circles (with a scone cutter if you have one, doesn't really matter if you don't. For that matter, you can cut them into any shape you like, but crinkly circles are the normal way)


• Brush either a bit of milk or egg over the top of each scone


• Bake for 10-15 minutes. They're nicest if served hot from the oven.

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