Scones No. 1

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• half a teaspoonful of sugar
• half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• one-quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar
• a pinch of salt
• half an ounce of butter
• a gill of sour milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix dry ingredients thoroughly.

2. 2

   Rub in butter, make a hole in the center, and pour in sour milk.

3. 3

   Mix quickly, roll out to 1/4 inch thick, cut into rounds, and bake on a hot griddle for about 10 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 156. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pinch of salt. Warm the milk and mix the yeast in it ; put the flour into a basin and make a hole in it, and mix in the yeast, having a ring of flour all round ; let it rise and melt the butter, mix it in the eggs, and beat these for twenty minutes. Butter the mould, throw in some breadcrumbs and almonds, and put in a hot oven for half an hour. Sables Normands ; Normandy Short Cakes. — Take three eggs, half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of butter, and mix all these together with a wooden spoon ; then, with the hands, add half a pound of flour, little by little, CAKES AND CONFECTIONS 225 till the paste gets thick and firm. Roll it out, and cut into small rounds with pastry moulds, and bake in a brisk oven in buttered tins, or on oiled paper. Scones. — No. 1. Take half a pound of flour, half a tea- spoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, one-quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar, and a pinch of salt. Mix these thoroughly, taking care there are no lumps in the soda or tartar. Add half an ounce of butter ; rub it well into the flour ; make a hole in the centre, and pour in a gill of sour milk

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.