Tea Time Recipes for Dads with Kids – Buttery Scones

By dads4l on September 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

Serves 8

Ingredients

350g self-raising flour, and a little more for dusting
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
85g butter, cut into cubes
3 tbsp caster sugar
175ml milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 beaten egg, to glaze

Method

Heat oven to 220°C. Mix flour in a large bowl with salt and baking powder. Add butter and rub in with your fingers until the mix looks like fine crumbs. Stir in the sugar.

– Kids can help with stirring in the sugar.

Warm up milk in a microwave for about 30 seconds. Add vanilla and lemon juice and set aside for a moment.
Make a well in the dry mix, then add the liquid and combine it quickly with a cutlery knife – it will seem pretty wet at first.
Scatter some flour onto the work surface and tip the dough out. Dredge the dough and your hands with a little more flour, then fold the dough over 2-3 times until it is a little smoother.
Take a 5cm cutter (smooth-edged cutters tend to cut more cleanly, giving a better rise) and dip it into some flour. Plunge into the dough, then repeat until you have four scones.

– Kids can help with cutting out of the scones.