When it comes to scones, you really are spoiled for choice. Scones can be sweet, savory or with some thing, like sour cream scones.
Ingredients
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
1 1⁄2 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons sour cream
4 tablespoons milk (plus some extra for glazing)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450° F (225° C).
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Rub in butter. Add sour cream and milk at once; mix with a knife until obtaining a soft, not sitcky, dough.
- Turn the dough on to a lightly floured board and knead it quickly until it is smooth.
- Roll out the dough to about 1/2 inch thick. cut 9 to 10 rounds with a cookie cutter and transfer them to a buttered cookie sheet. glaze tops with milk.
- Bake towards top of the hot oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until well risen and golden brown.
- Cool on a wire rack. Serve with butter and jam or butter and cheese.
Yield
4 servings
Preparation time
25 minutes
Cooking time
10 minutes
Total time
35 minutes
Notes
Yogurt scones - use 4 tablespoons plain yogurt instead of sour cream. The scones will be slightly less moist.
Buttermilk scones - use 1/2 cup buttermilk instead of sour cream and milk.
f you don't have sour cream, yogurt or buttermilk, add 1Tbs lemon juice or vinegar to 1 cup milk and let stand for 5 minutes. Use this instead of sour cream, yogurt or buttermilk.