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Cherry Fruit Scones Recipe

February 12, 2013

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Afternoon Tea Cherry and Fruit Scones Recipe

Delicious cherry and fruit scones recipe perfect for an afternoon tea or even as a snack. Serve hot with clotted cream and homemade strawberry jam.

Ingredients for Cherry Fruit Scones Recipe

225g/8 oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
40g/1 1/2oz butter cubed
15g/ 1/2oz sugar
150ml/ 1/4 pint milk
50g/2oz mixed dried fruit
8 small glace cherries chopped into quarters

Cherry Fruit Scones Recipe

Preheat the oven to 220C/425F Gas Mark 7 and grease a baking tray. Into a bowl sift the flour, baking powder and salt and then rub in the butter so that you get the mixture the consistency of bread crumbs.

Add the sugar to the mix and stir then pour in the milk and mix to form a dough and turn out on a lightly floured surface and knead for a short while (this isn’t bread and the more you knead it the less the scones will rise). Then roll out until around 1/2 inch thick and cut using the round part of a pastry cutter.

Place on the baking tray and brush with some milk and then put in the oven for 12 – 15 minutes (depending on your oven), when cooked a lovely golden brown and then turn out onto a wire rack and eat.

Best eaten hot and with clotted cream and homemade Jam.