Cream Scones

Scones are one of my favourites when it comes to tea time. It is easy and fast to make. Most of the time all the ingredients required are readily available as these ingredients are essential to our daily life. A batch of approximately 10 scones can be churned out within minutes. Due to my tight schedule even on weekends simple recipe such as this one is highly appealing to me.

Most of the time I used milk for my scones but so happen I had some leftover cream from the recent batch of quiche that I made. Therefore for these batch of scones I used cream instead. I must said that scones made of cream are richer in taste and the texture is finer than those made with milk.

I served my scones with whipped cream and strawberry jam. The cream melted a little due the the hot weather and my short cut in not whipping the cream well. Nevertheless it still taste yummy.

Here's the recipe for the above scones :-

Ingredients

2 cups plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp castor sugar

A pinch of salt

30g butter

3/4 cup cream

1/4 cup water

2 tbsp raisins (or more depending on preference)

1. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.

2. Add sugar and rub in butter to resemble bread crumbs.

3. Add in raisins and make a well in the centre.

4. Add in cream and water.

5. Mix quickly using palate knife to form a soft dough.

6. Knead briefly using only fingers until smooth.

7. Flatten dough to 2 cm thickness.

8. Cut with 5 inch round cutter.

9 Baked in oven pre-heated to 200C for 15 to 20 minutes.