Scones (to put honey on)

In addition to the several shelves of cookbooks that I have, in my kitchen I've got a file box full of recipes dilligently cut from magazines or printed from online sources or gotten at food festivals and the like.  Liberally sprinkled throughout are the photocopies that I made of my mom's recipe binder when I left home.  They were, for the most part, handwritten on lined paper; many of them are credited to a relative or a friend, some of whom I only vaguely remember, a few of them I never met.

This is the food of my childhood.  I'm not going to say that I love each and every one of these recipes.  I don't.  I do, however, love that they're there.  That I have them around for when I need a reminder of my youth, or to feel like part of a culinary heritage.

My mom's scone recipe is very simple and plain.  It looks like either she copied it in a hurry, or she copied it from someone else who copied it in a hurry.  But it works.  In a world of a million-million scone recipes, these are dependable, tried and true.  Make them and you'll understand why they've lasted so long, and why I'll pass them on to my own kids someday.

Scones

2 cups unsifted flour
3 tsp baking powder
2 TB sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4 TB butter
2 eggs beaten (1 TB egg white for brushing)
1/3 cups heavy cream
2 tsp sugar

Combine flour, powder, sugar, salt
Fork cut butter until crumbs
Stir in eggs & cream
Flour board & knead
2 parts & roll 1" thick
6 in. circles & cut in quarters
Place on ungreased sheet
Brush with egg white
Sprinkle with sugar
400° 15 min.

[Note: I know it's tempting, but please don't use your food processor for scones and biscuits and the like.  The time you'll save is not worth the quality you'll lose in the finished product.]

Comments

[Molly]

What beautiful scones! Although I love nearly anything calling itself a scone, every now and then I need a good, plain one like yours, with a flaky but not-too-buttery crumb. These look right up my alley...

[Brenda]

These look so tasty! I'm definitely going to make these minus the expensive honey...

[peaseblossom]

Thanks! They're pretty good (if I do say so myself), even without the honey.

[melissa]

They look amazing and delicious ;)
Hugs,
M

[Brenda]

Hey- I made these scones this weekend and they were tasty. Instead of expensive honey, I put some expensive butter on. Yeah, it's redundant, but hedonisticly so.

[Nicky]

Hi!
Your scones look wonderful - sadly computer monitors don't transport their freshly baked scent yet... ;)
Thanks for your recipe, exactly what I needed, because I bought some clotted cream on Saturday (just because of the nice packaging) without having a clue how to bake scones...

[jenifer]

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