Basic Scones Recipe

• 8 ounce Plain flour or possibly plain wholemeal flour, if you like
• 1 tsp Cream of tartar
• 1/2 tsp Soda
• 1 pch Salt
• 2 ounce Butter or possibly margarine
• 1 ounce Caster sugar (granulated sugar)
• 4 ounce (fl) lowfat milk Lowfat milk to glaze

1. In answer to the recent request for scones, I dug some up from: Hamlyn All Colour Cakes and Baking cookbook.
2. It is an honest-to-goodness British
3. Fruit scones are my favorite, so I'll write the recipe for them first.
4. Because this is a British cookbook, the measurements may look a little different than you're used to.
5. In these recipes, I assume which caster sugar is roughly equivalent to the American granulated sugar.
6. Finally, we have Basic Scones.
7. Preheat oven to 425 F. Sift the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt into a bowl.
8. Rub in the butter till the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs.
9. Stir in the sugar and sufficient lowfat milk to mix to a soft dough.
10. Turn onto a floured surface, knead lightly and roll out to a 3/4-inch thickness.
11. Cut into 2-inch rounds and place on a floured baking sheet.
12. Brush with lowfat milk to glaze.
13. Bake for 10 min then cold on a wire rack.
14. Serve with butter or possibly cream, and jam.

flour, cream of tartar, soda, salt, butter, sugar, milk

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/basic-scones-79809 (may not work)