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Scones

Print Recipe Bonita Bruneau | Prairie Presbyterian | Winnipeg, MB
Course Misc (e.g., hollandaise sauce, café latte)
Servings 10 squares or 16 triangles

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cup flour
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp white sugar
  • 1/4 cup butter or shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/3 cup milk

Topping :

  • 2 tbsp white sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 450F. Stir flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar together.
  • Cut in butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture has the consistency of course cornmeal.
  • Beat eggs until light, (reserving 2 tsp. to brush over top of scones)
  • Stir in milk.
  • In the dry ingredients make a well in the centre, add liquid slowly to make a soft dough.
  • When all liquid has been added, stir dough rather vigorously until it comes freely from the side of bowl.
  • Pat to 3/4" thickness, cut in squares or triangles.
  • Brush over with egg & sprinkle with sugar.
  • Bake on a well greased cookie sheet in oven for 12-15 minutes. These scones may brown quickly on bottom.

VARIATIONS:

  • Raisin - stir in 1/2 cup or raisins or currants with dry ingredients.Cheese - increase salt to 1 tsp. If using shortening, decrease sugar to 1 tsp. Cut in 1/2 cup of shredded cheddar cheese with butter or shortening.
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