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Tea Scones

How to Cook Recipes Tea Scones using 7 ingredients and 5 steps

Tea Scones - These scones couldn't be more basic — or more delicious. Simply stir together flour, sugar, salt, leavening, vanilla, and enough cream to make a cohesive dough. Pat into circles, cut into wedges, chill, bake — and enjoy ultra-tender, warm "cream tea" scones, perfect with butter and fresh preserves. Afternoon tea scones are a quintessential part of British culture. Learn how to make the best scones using my tried and tested scone recipe, and how to serve them with a lovely cup of proper British tea.

Tea Scones

Unlike most scones, these have an unusually light, cakelike texture.

Afternoon Tea wouldn't be the same without scones.

You can have Tea Scones using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients cook Tea Scones

  1. It's 2 cups flour.
  2. You need 2 tsp baking powder.
  3. Prepare 1 pinch salt.
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp sugar.
  5. You need 1/2 cup buttermilk.
  6. It's 1 egg.
  7. Prepare 1/3 cup margarine.

Tea Scones instructions

  1. Gather a your ingredients. Line your baking tray with baking paper. Pre heat your oven to 150°.
  2. Mix the dry ingredients. Then use your hands to rub in the butter till it appears coarse..
  3. Mix the egg and butter milk in a bowl. Then create a well in the dry ingredients and pour out the wet mix leaving about a tbsp for the egg was. Use a wooden spoon to mix do not knead..
  4. Once combined place the dough on a floured surface and use a rolling pin to flatten to a medium sized thickness not too thin and not too thick. Use a cutter or glass to cut out the shapes..
  5. Lay on the baking tray and the use a brush to apply the remaining egg mixture on the scones before baking. Once ready serve as desired..

Tea Scones - Scones are, after all, the very essence of afternoon tea. With a tea course entirely dedicated to itself. Buttermilk scones recipe: Buttermilk scones are an afternoon tea staple (Image: Royal Ascot) Create a well in the middle of the mixture and add the sugar, mixing thoroughly. Arrange the scones on the greased baking trays and brush the tops with the remaining milk. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Cinnamon scones smell wonderful when baking, and make a great on-the-go breakfast or a lovely afternoon treat to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee. For a lighter-tasting scone, use pastry flour instead of all-purpose, or replace half the all-purpose flour called for in the recipe with cake flour. Thank you and good luck