Tag: scones

Cheese scones

Out of bread? I made these quickly tonight while my soup was heating up, and they were delicious with cream cheese spread on them while they were still warm. One of the secrets of good scones is to make them quickly and don’t handle the dough very much. 

INGREDIENTS:

  • 225g plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 4 tsp  baking powder
  • 50g butter
  • 50g grated parmesan (or other cheese)
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 tsp mustard
  • 150ml milk

METHOD

  • Set the oven to heat at 220C
  • Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Add the butter and rub it into the flour with your finger tips. 
  • Add the grated cheese and mix in well. 
  • Beat the egg and mustard with around 100ml milk, then stir it quickly into the dry ingredients. 
  • As soon as the mixture starts to form a dough, bring it together with your fingers, and turn out onto a floured table. Use your hands to make it around 1.5cm thick. You can cut out round scones with a cutter, but I just cut the dough up into pieces. 
  • Put the scones onto a baking sheet, and bake in the hot oven for 15 minutes. Once cooked, put them on a wire tray to cool. But of course they are best eaten while they are still warm. 

Potato Scones

Continuing the theme of using things up so we don’t have to go to the shops. We had 125g of left-over mashed potato in the fridge, so this morning I made potato scones. The ratio of flour to mashed potato is around 1:5 so I added 25g flour. I mashed the flour into the potatoes until it was all well mixed, and then drew the mixture together with my hands. I rolled it out into a circle, and then cut that into six wedges. I fried the scones in lard until browned on both sides, and served with a couple of fried eggs and some Stornoway black pudding.