Cheese Scones

A great recipe from a retired professional baker from northern England with the most soothing voice, if you ever watch his YouTubes, where there are many great, straightforward baking recipes.

This is an easy and relatively quick recipe for SIX cheese scones (although I got seven from the mixture!), which not seem a lot but they come out quite a decent size.

INGREDIENTS:
    225g / 8oz self raising flour
    55g / 2oz Cold butter
    100g / 3½oz Mature cheddar cheese
    90g / mls / 3.2oz Milk (full fat/cream)
    4g / 1 tsp baking powder
    2g / ½tsp Mustard powder
    1g / ¼tsp Cayenne pepper
    1g / ¼tsp Turmeric
    2g / ¼tsp Salt
    Extra cheese for topping
    Milk for glazing
(I used jar mustard instead of powder; paprika instead of cayenne, and semi-skimmed milk)

METHOD:
• Before starting the recipe preheat your oven to 200°C / 392°F or gas mark 6.
• Sift in all of the dry ingredients to a bowl. (Self raising flour listed, but if you’re using plain or all purpose flour add an extra 2 tsp of baking powder to the recipe.)
• Add the cold butter and rub together until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
• Fold in cheese with your fingers until it is evenly incorporated.
• Add the milk and cut it in using a dinner knife.

• Gently fold the mixture together into a dough by hand, taking care not to over handle the dough.
• Roll the dough into a rectangle approximately 25mm / 1 inch thick.

• Cut the dough into approximately 6 scones with a scone cutter or knife.
• Place the scones on a greased baking tray, brush the tops with milk and add a little finely grated cheese to each one.

 

• Place the tray into the preheated oven and set your timer for 14 minutes, times may vary between 13 and 17 minutes due to varying temperatures of different ovens.
• When the time is up, remove from the oven when golden brown and allow to completely cool on a wire rack.
• Serve with plenty of butter.

My husband loves cheese savouries so this satisfied his 'cheese tooth' very well! 

I prepped these on a cold grey Sunday while the coffee fairy cakes were cooking to make use of the oven being on - maybe you could put them in together.