Scones

Scones

Nothing goes better with a pot of afternoon tea than scones made to a traditional recipe

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6 - 8

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 40 mins

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar in a bowl, then rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in the raisins or sultanas, if using.
  2. Bit by bit, add 150ml milk until you have a firm dough. Turn out onto a floured work surface. Pat the dough into a circle about 1 1/2 cm thick and cut out the scones.
  3. Put onto a non-stick baking sheet and brush the tops with milk. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Serve with butter, or jam and cream.

Recipe from olive magazine, March 2007.

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  • 22 June 2008

    Jodie rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    very simple to make ... and very soft in the middle ... my only problem is it only just makes about 6 scones (not 8) ... which dont last long :)

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  • 04 August 2008

    shikoomkoom rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Well, these were really nice but more like rock cakes than scones.. Not that I'm complaining cos' I love rock cakes but yes, all in all they were delicious! I agree theres no way you could make 8 from the mixture.

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  • 23 August 2008

    Jessica commented on this recipe

    very simple and delicious. I managed to make 5, probably because I used a large scone cutter. I used 200g plain flour and 25g self-raising (because I didn't have ebough plain flour) and it was really soft. They only lasted for 2 days, but it was still soft the next day.

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  • 09 December 2008

    Tonia commented on this recipe

    Easy recipe and reminded me of Waitrose scones - deff recomend

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  • 01 March 2009

    charliebug commented on this recipe

    Tastey but didn't really rise...flat scones! The question is did I forget to put the baking powder in?! I know I got it out the cupboard but flat scones?! Oh dear!

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  • 06 April 2009

    Phil commented on this recipe

    These are far, far better: http://whatscookinggrandma.humanbeans.net/card/9

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  • 11 April 2009

    Lucia rated this recipe

    5 stars

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  • 26 April 2009

    Jax's Binder rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    My scones didn't rise at all and were salty. I tried this out cos other recipes have been fine but I will use another scone recipe which uses self raising flour.

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  • 26 February 2010

    supermum rated this recipe

    4 stars

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  • 14 March 2010

    Ian S Saville rated this recipe

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  • 13 April 2010

    jerseykatie44 commented on this recipe

    Very fluffy, didnt rise a great deal, first impressions for taste were quite bad! didnt taste much like real scones!! disappointed but will probably try a recipe with self raising flour next time.

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  • 13 April 2010

    jerseykatie44 rated this recipe

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  • 16 April 2010

    Tori-x commented on this recipe

    Quite dissapointed with this recipe. Firstly, the scones were very flat, and then when we got round to eating them, they were incredibly salty. I think I will be using a different recipe next time.

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  • 05 May 2010

    golden_glow90 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Well I have used this recipe twice now. I recommend only using 100ml of milk otherwise it goes a bit too sticky, but I managed to make 9 good sized scones which rose a good 2 cm, so I don;t know why everyone else is having such a big problem with this recipe

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  • 16 May 2010

    Traknox rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Really easy recepie. Added some all spice and substituted the flour for doves farm plain gluten free. The results were great. I am very pleased with the results!

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  • 30 May 2010

    sarahmaddox commented on this recipe

    I agree with the some of the others, they didn't look as they were supposed to - a bit flat. I was a bit worried that I used the wrong flour... The recipe was easy to follow though and they did taste quite nice even though a bit hard for me.

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  • 20 September 2010

    ZeTallGerman rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    The taste of these scones is nice, but they do not rise at all. It's more like a hockey puck than a scone! I now use the other scone recipe here on the website (just search for "Classic scones") which uses self-raising flour and also a bit of lemon juice... these rise wonderfully and are much better.

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  • 24 September 2010

    andrew leishman rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This worked really well. My wife made them first and we cut out with a small cup but we've since got cutters and I've used the larger one since. Only advice would be to makre sure you leave a good bit of space between the scones. When I made them, there were a couple which "bonded". Not that they went to waste, cut apart and polished off nicley. Tried since with Glace cherries instead of sultantas, Mmmmm

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  • 27 January 2011

    Maren rated this recipe

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  • 27 January 2011

    Maren commented on this recipe

    You can take 25 g of honey also instead of the sugar and wholemeal flour instead of the plain flour.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6 - 8

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 40 mins

Ingredients

  • 225g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 30g caster sugar
  • 55g butter
  • 55g raisins or sultanas (optional)
  • 150ml milk
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