Scones No. 2

Ingredients

• half a pint of milk
• one ounce of butter
• an egg
• a saltspoonful of salt
• a teaspoonful of baking powder
• enough fine flour

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in milk, beat in egg, and add salt and baking powder.

2. 2

   Mix in enough flour to make a very soft dough.

3. 3

   Roll into round cakes, mark into sections, and bake on a griddle for 20 minutes.

4. 4

   Split and butter while hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half a pint of milk; Avhen blood-warm put in half a cake of compressed yeast, a beaten egg, two teaspoonfuls of sugar and a saltspoonful of salt. When the yeast is dissolved, stir in a cup and a-half of flour well djied and quite warm; beat two or three minutes ; it should be too thick for batter, and not thick enough for dough — so thick that you cannot take it up in a spoon at all; cover with a hot cloth, and set it in a warm place ; it will rise in about two hours ; if you have time, the texture will be better if you beat it down and let it rise again before putting it in the tins. They will be very good, however, if you simply stir it down well, and with a tablespoon dipped 119 1 20 Practical Recipes. in flour, fill small roll-pans with the batter rather more than half full ; let them rise till the pans are full, and then bake ten to fifteen minutes in a very quick oven; when pale-brown brush them oyer with a little syrup thinned with milk, and bake till quite brown ; be care- ful they do not burn — the syrup causes them to do so easily. SCOTCH SCOKES. Dissolye half a saltspoonful of soda and two ounces of butter or lard in a gill of warmed sour milk ; put ten ounces of flour and a little salt in a bowl ; pour the mixture in and make it into a stiff dough; roll it out into a round cake half an inch thick; mark it in eight sections and bake on a griddle fifteen to twenty min- utes ; split and butter while hot. scoi^ES ]sro. 2. Melt in half a pint of milk one ounce of butter; beat up an egg and stir it into the milk; with a saltspoonful of salt add enough fine flour mixed with a teaspoonful of baking powder

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