Scones

Scones

2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
½ cup butter – cold and cubed
1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 205C (400F).
Mix dry ingredients.
Cut in cold butter with pastry cutter or use fingers until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.
Add milk all at once with a metal spoon.
Tun out onto floured surface and pat out with fingers until approx. 1” thick.
Cut out into desirable shapes.
Brush tops with milk if desired.
Bake for approx. 12 min or until golden brown.

Note: handle scone mixture as little as possible. Too much handling results in hard scones.

Mom used to roll out the entire mixture to make either cheese rolls or cinnamon rolls - 'cindies' as dad called them. Dale has perfected the cindy recipe, and we still have to perfect the cheese recipe... so I will post those variations once they've been tested ;)