My wife is a big fan of cheese scones, and she’s been looking forward to me making some for a while now, so I made these last night before going to bed, and she decided that they’re “the best scones I’ve ever eaten”.
3 cups standard plain Flour
6 teaspoons Baking Powder
75 g Butter
1 to 1½ cups Milk, approximately
1 cup grated Cheese
pinch Cayenne Pepper
½ teaspoon Mustard
extra Milk
extra grated Cheese
Preheat oven to 220°C. Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl. Rub in butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.* Add cheese, cayenne pepper and mustard. Add milk and mix quickly with a knife to a soft dough (sprinkle on a bit more flour if it gets too wet). Knead a few times (in the bowl is fine). Lightly dust an oven tray with flour (or use baking paper). Press scone dough out onto this. Cut into 12 even sized pieces, leaving a 2 cm space between scones. Brush tops with milk and put a bit of cheese on top of each. Bake at 220°C for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Makes 12
* The recipe actually says “Cut butter in until it resembles fine breadcrumbs“. I’ve never understood how you’re meant to do this, but my wife suggested “rubbing it in”. So i just dumped the whole 75 g chunk of butter into the flour mixture and pretty much kneaded it in with my hands, rubbing bits off the chunk of butter into the flour, until it was nicely distributed through the flour, and it did end up resembling fine breadcrumbs.
