Scones

Name: Scones
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 3 cups white cake flour; 1 cup icing sugar; 6 teaspoons baking powder; 125 grams cold butter or margarine (cubed); 1 cup sour milk; 1 egg; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Zaheer Ebrahim @cook_28343347

Johannesburg

There are different scone recipes, some require buttermilk and other interesting versions contain custard powder.I prefer this version with icing sugar instead of castor sugar, do not roll out the dough and you will have excellent scones with good height. #kickstart

Zaheer Ebrahim @cook_28343347

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Ingredients

30 minutes

12 servings

3 cupswhite cake flour
1 cupicing sugar
6 teaspoonsbaking powder
125 gramscold butter or margarine (cubed)
1 cupsour milk
1egg
1 teaspoonvanilla essence

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Sift Flour,baking powder and icing sugar
2

Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until it forms a breadcrumb texture
3

In a separate bowl,beat the eggs and sour milk together and add in the Vanilla essence
4

Pour the egg,sour milk mixture into the flour
5

Lightly flour your work surface
6

Place your entire mixture onto surface
7

Do not roll out, with a light hand Pat the dough to a 3cm thickness,this results in a perfect rise.
8

Using a scone cutter,cut each scone and place onto a greased,oven proof flat dish,keeping in mind to spread the scones out
9

Whisk one egg and brush the tops of each scones before placing in the oven
10

Bake at 180°c, for about 15 minutes or until golden brown on top and lightly brown at the bottom of each scone.