Fluffy Scones
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 100 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 1 tbsp Baking powder
- 70 grams Butter
- 70 ml Milk( or yoghurt or heavy cream)
- 1 Egg (small)
- 2 to 3 tablespoons Sugar
- 50 grams Dried fruits (such as raisins)
- 1 Clotted cream
- 1 Jam
- Cut the butter into 0.5 cm, sift the flour and baking powder together twice.
- Put them all into a bowl and mix together by rubbing.
- The mixture becomes crumbly after a few minutes.
- It's easier to use hands than food processor.
- When there are no lumps of butter and the mixture becomes crumbly, make sure that there are no butter lumps left by squashing the mixture with your hands.
- When the mixture becomes like the photo, add the sugar and your favorite dried fruits (like raisins) and stir lightly.
- Then add the milk (or yoghurt) and beaten egg, and mix lightly to make a dough.
- If the dough is too soft, flour your hands a lot to gather it together.
- If the butter has melted and the dough is sticky, then rest the dough in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for more than 1 hour.
- If the dough is not sticky, roll up and fold 3 times.
- Roll it out to 2.5 - 3 cm thick and cut out the shapes.
- The dough should be the same softness as freshly pounded rice cakes (mochi).
- Bake for 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C, (or 200C).
- The best way to serve is warm, but if the scones get cool, microwave for 10-20 seconds.
- Serve with clotted cream and jam.
- The scones get a bit burned if the cooking temperature is 200C in our oven.
- Serve with clotted cream or richly flovoured milk.
- These ones made a weird face!
- I didn't mix the flour and butter completely for these ones and they didn't rise very well.
- I used yoghurt instead of milk.
- Also added more bread flour than cake flour.
- Then it plumped up well, from 2.5 to 6.5 cm.
- The width is same.
- I used milk.
- I added more flour.
- Then the scones did not rise higher compared with the one in step 12.
- But they spread out more.
- The length is from 2.5 to 6 cm, the width is from 5 to 6 cm.
- This time the scones rose a lot.
- I rolled up the dough into 4 cm.
- The cooking time is longer than usual.
flour, bread, baking powder, butter, milk, egg, sugar, raisins, cream
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168030-fluffy-scones (may not work)