English Scones

English Scones recipe

Ingredients:

480 g all purpose flour

115 g granulated sugar

4 tsp baking powder

115 g unsalted butter

1 egg 

200 ml milk 

1 cup of dried figs (cut in small pieces)

1 egg yolk (it's for egg wash)

Preheat oven at 325F

* To start, combine the dried ingredients (all-purpose flour, sugar, and baking powder) in a bowl.

*Before adding the butter to the dried ingredients, chop the unsalted butter into small pieces. Mash the butter with the dried ingredients using your hands.

Gradually add the milk and egg to the flour mixture to create a dough by first combining the egg and milk in a cup.

*Fruit the dough evenly with the dried figs.

Divide the dough into 16 pieces at this point.

*The dough can be rolled into a circle and put on a baking sheet.

The dough should be egg-washed before being placed in the oven for 20 minutes on the centre rack.

2nd Version: 

Scones recipe:

480 g All purpose flour

6 tsp Baking powder

115 g Unsalted butter - room temperature

1 Large size egg 

80 g Granulated sugar

1 egg for egg wash, to apply egg wash before baking the scones.

🔺️Oven heat 350 F/ 175 C ( adjust your own oven heat due to different type of oven has different results)

🔺️Bake Time : 20

🔺️ Middle rack

Method:

🔸️Use your hand or a food processor to mix the flour and butter without lumps, this helps to make the scones have flaky texture.

🔸️Then add all other ingredients in the mixed butter and flour to form a dough.

🔸️Roll the dough at around 2 inches thick and use a round cookie cutter to make a round shape scone. (Of course, you can make your own shapes whatever way you like. )

🔸️Put the sconces on a baking sheet

🔸️Apply egg wash to the scones

🔸️Preheated oven at 350F/ 175C

🔸️Bake for 20 minutes on a middle rack