Scones

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 6 3/4 cups self-rising flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 lb butter, cold, cut into pieces
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400- degrees f.
• 2 in a large bowl whisk together flour and sugar.
• 3 using a pastry cutter or two knives, work butter into flour until it resembles coarse meal.
• 4 in a small bowl whisk egg and milk together.
• 5 add one cup of the milk/egg mixture to the flour/butter mixture, mixing with your hands until a soft dough is formed, adding milk by the tablespoons if needed. reserve remaining milk mixture.
• 6 transfer dough to a floured board.
• 7 pat dough into 1-inch thick rectangle.
• 8 using a 3-inch round cookie cutter (or a coffee mug), cut out the scones. gather remaining dough and repeat until you use up all the dough. you should get 12 scones.
• 9 put scones on a lightly floured cookie sheet about 1/2 inch apart. brush tops of scones with remaining milk mixture.
• 10 bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
• 11 transfer to a cooling rack to cool.
• 12 serve scones with jam or cream.