Scones

Ingredients

• 1 lb. self rising Flour
• 1 oz. Castor Sugar
• 3 ozs. Sultanas
• 3 ozs. Butter
• X pint Cold Milk

Method

1. 1

   Take a basin and sieve the pound of flour, in which rub the butter and add the sultanas and castor sugar.

2. 2

   Mix all well together and add not quite the half-pint of cold milk.

3. 3

   Turn out onto the board and knead well.

4. 4

   Form it into two rounds and place them on a flat baking sheet, and cut each round across and across, so as to form six scones from each round.

5. 5

   Brush them over with an egg, and prick them on the top with a fork.

6. 6

   Bake in a quick oven from 15 to 20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Scones. Ingredients. — 1 lb. self rising Flour, 1 oz. Castor Sugar, 3 ozs. Sultanas, 3 ozs. Butter, X pint Cold Milk

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