Mummy's Sweet White Scones

Recipe Ingredients

8 cups	500g / 17oz	Flour
1		Salt
1/3 cup	65g / 2.3oz	Superfine granulated sugar
4 teaspoons	20ml	Baking powder
12 tablespoons	180ml	Butter - (1 1/2 sticks)
3		Eggs, free-range if possible
1 3/4 cups	414ml	Milk - (approximately) - to mix
		Glaze
1		Egg - beaten with
1		Salt
		Granulated sugar

Recipe Instructions

First preheat your oven to 475 degrees.

Sieve all the dry ingredients together in a nice roomy bowl. Make a well in the center and rub in the butter. Beat the eggs with the milk, add the liquid all in one go and mix to a soft dough. Turn out on to a floured board. Knead lightly, just enough to shape into a round. Roll out to about 1-inch thick and stamp into scones. (Mummy always cut them into squares or diamond shapes.) Brush tops with egg wash and dip in granulated sugar. Bake in the hot oven for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden-brown on top. Cool on a wire rack.

Serve the scones split in half with butter and homemade jam or, better still, with homemade raspberry jam and a dollop of whipped cream.

This recipe yields ?? servings.

Variation: Add 4 ounces plump sultanas to the above mixture when the butter has been rubbed in. Continue as above.

Source:
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF IRISH COUNTRY COOKING by Darina Allen (c) 1995 - Penguin Studio, New York, NY - 288 pages - $27.95 - As reprinted in the Mar/Apr, 1997 issue of Cookbook Digest

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