Buttermilk Scones

INGREDIENTS

  • 3 cups flour

  • ⅓ cup sugar

  • 2½ cups baking powder

  • ¾ cup butter, grated or cubed

  • salt

  • 1 cup buttermilk

  • milk

DESCRIPTION

I make these so I have breakfast. You can freeze them and they’ll last long enough that I can’t really tell you when they go bad. A pastry cutter makes short work of cutting in the butter, and the American technique of grating frozen butter is handy, but all the usual methods work fine.

PREPARATION

  1. Preheat an oven to 200°C

  2. Mix dry ingredients

  3. Cut butter into the dry ingredients

  4. Mix the buttermilk in and adjust the texture as needed with milk

  5. Fold and layer the dough, and cut out pieces, transfer to a baking tray

  6. Brush the scones with milk, egg wash, or buttermilk

  7. Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned and risen

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