Cheese scones

Cheese Scones

Ingredients:

200g Self Raising flour

50g hard block butter

50g cheddar cheese

100ml milk

Method:

1.Heat the oven to 200C

2.Put flour into a large mixing bowl

3.‘Rub in’ the butter/ margarine

4.Stir in the grated cheese

5.SLOWLY add the milk

6.Mix together to form a soft but not too sticky dough

7.Turn out onto floured surface

8.Pat into a round 2.5 cm thick.

9.Use a biscuit cutter to stamp out rounds- put onto Lined baking sheet.

10.Lightly knead dough back together and repeat until used up.

11.Brush with a little milk

12.Bake in the Hot oven for 12-15 min until golden and well risen.

13.Cool on a wire rack

Variations: 

To make plain sweet scones add 50g caster sugar.

To make fruit scones add 50g of caster sugar and 50g sultanas.

Other ideas:

You could also add sundried tomatoes to cheese scones or herbs such as chives / oragano.

For sweet scones you could add other dried fruits such as raisins / apricots.