Monday, November 28, 2011

Scones with clotted cream & mixed fruit jam

It's so good to be back after 4months of final year papers. Being in Malaysia for barely 48hours I have already made durian layer cake,chocolate chip cookies & scones with clotted cream &mixed fruit jam. The durian layer cake was a little strange,not too sure why but I wouldn't do again. I wasted half a carton of whipping cream for the so called durian mousse. Anyway, I made the scones perfectly this time after getting flat ones before.
Adapted from Australian Women's Weekly-Sweet Old Fashioned Favourites

450g self raising flour
A pinch of salt
1 teaspoon icing sugar
60g butter,chilled
approximately 400ml buttermilk

Milk to brush on scones

Method
  1. Grease pan.Preheat oven at a very hot temperature.
  2. Sift dry ingredients into large bowl, rub in butter with fingers.
  3. Slowly stir in buttermilk just enough to form sticky and soft dough.
  4. Turn dough onto well floured surface, and knead gently until dough is smooth.
  5. Gently roll out dough to 2cm thickness and using a scone cutter gently cut the dough.Don't twist after gently pressing the cutter into the dough as it will not rise.
  6. Brush milk on scones and bake for 15minutes. Make sure the oven is very hot to make the scones rise quickly.

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