Cream Scones

Ingredients

• Two cups of flour
• four teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• two teaspoonfuls of sugar
• one-half teaspoonful of salt
• four tablespoonfuls of butter
• two eggs
• one-third of a cup of cream

Method

1. 1

   Mix and sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.

2. 2

   Rub in butter with tips of fingers; add eggs well beaten, and cream.

3. 3

   Toss on a floured board, pat, and roll to three-fourths inch in thickness.

4. 4

   Cut in squares, brush with white of egg, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in a hot oven fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 238. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Scones. Two cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, four table- spoonfuls of butter, two eggs, one-third of a cup of cream

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