After last month’s scone disaster I was determined to get
these right. After all you can’t be a proper home baker without being able to
make a batch of scones on demand.
Method
This time I went with a recipe from Mary Berry that I found
in a Comic Relief baking book. I rubbed in the butter by hand and the recipe
called for it to look like small rubble rather than fine breadcrumbs. Instead
of milk it used a milk/yoghurt/egg mixture but no baking powder. I also pressed
out the dough to much greater 3 cm thickness.
Results
These turned out much, much better. I kept an eagle eye on
the oven temperature and they rose to about twice their height. The dough was
much softer too and the whole thing actually felt easier to make. However, I
only managed to get 7 scones out of the supposedly 8 scone mix. The scones
tasted pretty good and texture wasn’t too heavy. I think that they would have
been even better if they were slightly lighter but I will definitely be
sticking with this recipe. I would however like to experiment with flavours and
additions now I have this simple taste sorted.
Score: 8/10
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