Alrightie Foodiesbeehive we're in for a messy night tonight cooking one of England's most famous cakes, Scones! Now I have to be honest I have no idea if these things are popular in England or not but they are quite the go to kitchen favourite here in Australia and we've been told the origins of a scone is from England. As the saying goes Fancy a spot of tea gov'na and some Scones?
The thing I love most about Scones is that they are simple to make, taste great and don't take too long to cook. There are a range of different recipes but we're sticking true to form and going the traditional route as traditional is always best in my opinion.
First of all you're going to need some self raising flour for this recipe we use 3 cups you can sift it if you like but it's not something I do because we're about to get our hands messy in the next step which mixes it all out and gets rid of bumps.
Once you've got your 3 cups of self raising flour move onto the next delicious goodness and that's good old fashioned butter, none of this margarine stuff. You can use margarine if you're worried about calories and what not but I've never tried them with margarine so no clue what it tastes like.
With adult supervision or you might just want to get an adult to do this next step, we didn't have any adults in hand so I cut up the butter into small cubes. This part is important as it will help you mix it by hand in the next step. If you have a fancy cake maker I'm sure that can mix it to, but I don't and making them by hand is so much more fun.
For pop the butter into the flour and start mixing it by squashing the butter and flour into your hands. It's pretty fun this part and little miss really enjoyed it.
You want to keep squeezing and mixing until the flour and butter resemble light bread crumbs as above.
Make a well in the centre of the mixture and pour in 1 and 1/4 cups of milk. That's pretty much all the recipes ingredients at this stage. Simple as pie, well actually easier than making a pie.
Once you've done that you need to use a flat knife to kind of fold in the mixture from the sides into the centre. Once it is all mixed it will be kind of a crumbly mess. Then use your hands to combine it.
Once it's all combined it will look like the above, the dough is kind of crumbly and not the typical wet as a pizza dough.
Give it a knead and get all the air out of it and ensure all the butter, milk and flour is all combined.
Grab your favourite roller and start rolling it out flipping it and starting from the middle pushing the dough out. You want it to be about 2 to 3 centre meters thick. Anything thinner and you're going to have some crumbling biscuits.
For this next part we're using a kids cup as the cookie cutter but if you have one laying around you can use it. All depends on what size you want your Scones.
We've placed the cut Scones onto a baking tray that is lightly dusted with flour. Time to jam them into the oven for about 10 - 15 minutes at a 180 degrees Celsius in a fan forced oven or 200 degrees Celsius in a non fan forced oven.
While we wait it's time to make the whipped cream which we just use some thickend cream with a table spoon of caster sugar.
Time to whisk the cream until it's fluffy and thick, I absolutely dislike this part of whipped cream it is such a Labour intensive process and requires aeration to thicken up. But it's oh so delicious!
Once they're ready remove from the oven and let settle as they're going to be extremely hot. Might want to let them cool a little then cut them in half.
Once cut spread a bit of strawberry jam and a dollop of your whipped cream you've just made and enjoy!
Do you have a favourite Scones recipe or have you made this one before? Let me know in the comments section below.