Recipe: Perfect English Scones

English Scones. Scones are the easiest British teatime treat and chances are that you will have all the ingredients for Brush the tops of the scones with the beaten egg. British scones are more dense, slightly drier, and more crumbly than biscuits. They typically contain much less butter that biscuits as well.

English Scones Recipe photo by Taste of Home. American Scones are Wedge Shaped,Not an Authetic Scone from recipe. They also do not Raise Enough. You can cook English Scones using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of English Scones

1. You need 260 grams of all purpose flour.
2. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
3. You need 120 ml of milk.
4. You need 50 grams of sugar.
5. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1 large of egg.
7. It's 75 grams of unsalted butter.

English scones are more similar to American biscuits and they're often topped with butter, jam, or clotted cream. American scones are different, but different isn't necessarily a bad thing! Scones are an intrinsic part of both British and Irish cooking. The classic scone in this recipe has been mixed, baked, and eaten on these islands for centuries and are as popular today as they ever were.

English Scones step by step

1. Preheat oven 200degrees celcius or equivilant.
2. Grease baking sheet.
3. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl and mix together to make sure well combined.
4. Crack the egg into the milk and whisk until well combined.
5. Dot the butter into the bowl with the flour mix and using fingertips blend until resembles course breadcrumbs.
6. Add the milk and egg mixture to the bowl a little at a time using a wooden spoon until forms a dough. Do not over mix. You may not need all the egg and milk. Stop adding when all ingredients are combined into a dough thats not too wet and sticky.
7. Dust work surface and hands with flour, turn the dough out and knead quickly into a ball. Pat the ball of dough down with your hand and then roll so the dough its 1-2 cms high..
8. Using a lightly floured cookie cutter or other round implement cut out your scones from the dough. Ball up the leftover dough, re-roll and cut some more scones until you run out of dough.
9. Place scones on greased baking sheet well spaced. Either brush with milk for a brown top or dust with flour depending on your preferance..
10. Put baking sheet into middle of oven. The scones take approx 15-20 mins. They should have risen and be lightly browned. To test if cooked put a toothpick into the centre of one, it should come out clean..
11. Leave to cool down a bit on a wire rack.
12. Serve with butter or thick cream (clotted cream is best) and jam of your choice. Instead of jam you could use fresh fruit. Sliced strawberries are good :).

If the scones have set the skewer will come out clean. Leave the scones on a wire rack to cool. A scone (/skɒn/ or /skoʊn/) is a baked good, usually made of wheat, or oatmeal with baking powder as a leavening agent and baked on sheet pans. A good English scone should neither be too biscuit-like nor too muffin-like, but should fall somewhere between the two. Lightly grease a baking sheet with solid vegetable.