“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
These beautiful scones were a perfect project for Sienna and I on a frosty Saturday afternoon and we just so happened to have ‘afternoon tea’ visitors to feed them to – the verdict was “mmm, these are lovely”, good enough for me!
Ingredients
3 cups self-raising flour
(or 3 cups of all-purpose flour + 5 tsp baking powder)
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter (chopped into small pieces)
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
3 – 4 small apples peeled, cored and chopped into small pieces
Method
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C or gas mark 6). Lightly grease a baking sheet
- Peel, core and chop the apples, squirt a bit of lemon over them if you wish to prevent them from going brown (I didn’t!) and set to the side
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt
- Add cubes of butter and rub into the mix so it ends up looking like bread crumbs
- Mix the egg and milk in a small bowl, and stir enough into flour mixture until moistened *You may not need it all* – use enough to form a dough
- Put the dough onto a lightly floured surface, and knead slightly.
- Add in the apple pieces whilst kneading until it is all mixed into the dough
- Put a blob of dough into a 1/4 cup as a rough measurement, turn it out and mould in your hand into somewhat of a circle and place on the baking tray
- Brush (or use your finger) a little milk on the top of each circle of dough on the tray
- Pop them in the pre-heated oven for 15 – 20 minutes until golden brown (keep an eye on them)
- When they are ready put them on a cooling tray and DO NOT try to eat them until they are totally cool!
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― Henry James
