Scones
 
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Serves: 12 scones
Ingredients
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 heaped tsp baking powder
  • 2 heaped tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup grated cheese
  • 1 cup grated cheese
  • ⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese, or parmesan powder
  • ⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese, or parmesan powder
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp finely diced chives
  • 1 tbsp finely diced chives
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp salt
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • ½ cup cream
  • ½ cup cream
  • approx ½ cup soda water
  • approx ½ cup soda water
  • additional grated cheese to top scones before baking
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 180C. Line a baking tray with grease proof paper.
  2. Sift the flour and baking powder together into a large bowl. Add the cheeses, sugar, chives, salt and pepper. Stir to combine.
  3. Pour on the cream and mix with your hands, rubbing the lumps that form gently until you don't have any large lumps left. Splash in the soda water bit at a time, mixing with your hands after each addition, until a dough forms. The dough should be soft, but not so wet it sticks to your hands.
  4. Turn out on to a floured bench and gently knead for a couple of minutes.
  5. Pat the dough down to approximately 1.5 cm thickness and cut the scones into your desired shape. Place on the prepared baking tray, top with the additional grated cheese.
  6. Bake for 15-20 minutes until lightly golden. Serve warm with lashings of butter.
Notes
Similar to my simple muffins recipe, this scone dough is extremely flexible so can be made into sweet or savoury scones with whatever flavour combinations take your fancy. For sweet scones up the sugar to a ¼ cup, and throw in ½ cup of sultanas or currants, orange rind or chopped dates. Obviously don't add the cheese! And there are endless varieties of savoury flavourings - I like to add finely chopped rosemary and a few chilli flakes, or curry powder, diced onion and parsley, or even chopped sun-dried tomato and feta.
Recipe by The Fare Sage at https://www.thefaresage.com/scones/