Scones with Clotted Cream and Jam

By KimberlyB

Ingredients

• 225 g/ 8oz plain (all purpose) flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 55 g/ 2oz/ 4 tbsp butter, at room temperature
• 25 g/ 1oz caster (white) sugar
• 150 ml/ 5fl oz milk
• really good jam, to serve
• clotted cream, to serve

Details

Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 30mins

Preparation

Step 1

1.Heat your oven to 220C/425F. Grease a baking sheet and set aside. In a large bowl, sieve together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Working as quickly and lightly as possible with cold hands, rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
2.Next, stir in the sugar and then the milk until you have a soft but firm dough. Turn out dough onto a floured work surface and with floured hands, pat the dough into a circle about 1.5cm to 2cm thick and cut out the scones using a 5cm/2in cutter or a small glass jar. Place rounds on baking sheet and lightly knead together the rest of the dough and stamp out more scones to use it all up.
3.Brush the tops of the scones with milk. Bake for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack and serve with good jam and clotted cream. Makes 8-12 scones.

* With a 60% fat content, clotted cream is too thick to pour, but it’s not as thick as butter.