Fruit Scones
Homemade fruit scones featuring Makes approx 12 scones. Simple to make and deeply satisfying.
Ingredients
- Makes approx 12 scones
- 250 gm plain flour
- 120 ml milk
- 2 heaped tspn baking powder
- 100 gm fruit (currants, raisins etc.)
- Ā½ tspn salt
- 100 gm caster sugar
- 30 gm stork margarine
Method
- 1
Preheat the oven to 220Ā° C.
- 2
Using some melted stork margarine, brush a baking sheet.
- 3
Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl.
- 4
Cut the stork margarine into small pieces and rub into the flour mixture.
- 5
Using a spoon, mix in the fruit and sugar.
- 6
Using the blade of a knife, mix in the milk to make a soft dough. It is likely that a little more milk will be required to 'just bring the dough together' say 10 - 15 ml. If the dough is too wet then the scones will be tough.
- 7
Turn out the dough onto a floured surface, sprinkle with a little more flour and knead very lightly for about Ā½ min with fingertips. Too much needing will produce hard scones.
- 8
Roll out the dough to a thickness of approx 2 cm and cut into approx 6 cm diameter rounds using a pastry cutter.
- 9
Place the rounds, a little apart, onto the baking sheet.
- 10
Bring the remaining dough together, knead very lightly, roll out and cut into more rounds.
- 11
Repeat this process until all the dough is used.