English Scones

Good morning everyone, instead of the usual bread and tea as breakfast, i came across the english scones and decided to try it out myself, it came out so nice.

The English scones can be used with your tea or coffee as breakfast.

Recipe:

3 Cups of all purpose flour

1/2 cup of sugar

100g  slightly frozen butter (diced)

1 tin of evaporated Peak milk

2 tsp of baking powder

1 egg lightly beaten

1 egg beaten with 1 tsp of water to glaze

A generous pinch of salt

Procedure:

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt (if you are using salted

 butter, do not add salt)

Stir in the sugar

Using your finger tips lightly rub in the butter until mixture resembles dried bread crumbs.

Add the beaten egg

Add the milk with little water to moisten

Gather dough into a ball, turn it out on a floured surface.

Roll gently to 2cm thick, cut with a circle cutter.

Place on a greased pan, brush the tops with egg glaze.

Bake for 20 minutes at 180°C (or till slightly brown)

For best result Preheat your oven.