Paul's basic scones
"This basic scone mix is versatile and easy - one bowl, no cutters or rolling, just bake and share!" Paul O'Grady, TV personality, supplied this recipe to support Macmillan Cancer Support's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.
Ingredients
Serves: 9
- 50g unsalted butter
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1 tablespoon golden caster sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 125ml milk
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:15min ›
Ready in:30min
- Preheat the oven to 200 C / Gas 6. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Rub the butter into the flour, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and salt.
- Make a well in the centre of the mix and stir in the milk. Stir until the mixture is even and the dough comes together.
- Turn out onto a floured surface and shape into a rough square about 3 to 4cm thick. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet.
- Brush all over with milk and score into nine rough squares.
- Bake for 15 minutes until golden and cooked through.
- Cool on a wire rack. Serve warm or cold.
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Reviews & ratings
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(13)
Reviews in English (12)
I made these this afternoon and they are quite nice all tho I needed to have a bit more sugar as they want sweet enough and I also put in a few raisins, will be using this recipe again - 22 May 2013
Follwed this recipe today, they hardly rose and looked nothing like the image, which is unfortunate. Ok scones but definitely nothing like the image. - 03 Sep 2013
perfect. - 05 Aug 2013