Scones
By: James Martin From: James Martin: Sweet
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Scones
- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 15 mins
- Serves:
- makes about 20
For a tea time treat that everyone will love, rustle up a batch of James Martin's scrumptious scones
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Ingredients
- 500g plain flour
- 4 tsp Baking powder
- 75g caster sugar
- 85g Butter
- 2 Eggs, lightly beaten
- 230ml Milk
- 1 handful sultanas
- 1 Eggs, beaten to glaze
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 230°C/gas 8.2. Sift the flour, baking powder and sugar together in a bowl. Sift again to ensure the baking power is well mixed.
3. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Make a well in the centre and pour in the eggs and enough milk to give a fairly soft dough.
5. Mix in the sultanas.
6. Turn the mixture onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out lightly to a thickness of about 2cm. Cut into rounds with a 5cm cutter.
7. Place the rounds on a baking sheet. Liberally brush with beaten egg, making sure the egg wash doesn't spill over the edges (this will prevent cooking).
8. Bake for about 10-15 minutes until brown and well risen.
9. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
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View all comments (12)ItsAvery quick and easy recipe and the scones taste great
As a lass born in Cornwall to a Yorkshire Father and a Cornish Mother, I have to say the Cornish scones prepare plain scones for cream teas. Just a plain scone with a small amount of added sugar is enough. I have found in Yorkshire they put butter, jam and cream on their fruit scones, 2 lots of fat! I am a great fan of James, love the part of Yorkshire you came from. Your fruit scones with butter are wonderful, but not for cream teas James!
I wish you would include lbs & ounces, fluid ounces etc within the recipes published, I do not use metric, I do not like metric and do not like being forced to using it which I wont and the result is your recipes become obsolete in my book. Not a good sales strategy?? Thank you
Sorry forgot to put rating for this recipe
I have never made a scone in my life before today. I have now made a batch using this recipe and they are delicious, I better hide them before they are all eaten.
Dont understand why in your dessert book you say self raising flour and here you say use plain
the best scones ever although I used a bigger cutter and made bigger scones
easiest scone recipe ever!
this recipe is gorgouse! but instead of sultanas i addedmilk chocolate chips instead! they turned out lovely
Finally, after 25 years a scone recipe that works! Definitely to be a family regular after this. Lovely!
lovely , simple to make ,these will be a weekly bake in our house hold .
This recipe only requires a total of 500g of flour not 1000g, but when that quantity is used makes very nice scones.