Friday, November 21, 2008

Recipe for Scone

Make 10 Scones
120g Raisin and small amount of orange juice to soak the raisins
450g Self-raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
120g butter
salt
2 large egg
5 table spoons milk

To make you dough
Preheat oven to 200degC/ 400F/ gas6.
Soak raisin with orange juice
Mix flour and baking powder and butter, rub them together by hand untl the mixture starts to look like breadcrumbs.
Make a well in middle.
beat egg and milk, drain raisin and add into beaten egg and milk with a pinch of salt
Pour in to the flour mixture and mix well until u have a soft, dry dough.

Roll out the dough untils its 2cm thick, cut in to size and brush some milk on the top of each scone. Bake for 12 to 15mins until risen and brown.
Take out from oven and place into a wire rack to cool.

Homemake strawberry Jam
Crush strawberry by hand, add sugar and bring to boil until the juice become thicken.

Happy trying!!!!!!
Dun forget to serve with the traditional english afternoon tea oh!!!!!

3 comments:

VoonVoon said...

Aha~
i have made the strawberry jam ler.. but how to make it as sticky as we buy usually?

Shang Seen said...

boil longer until the water evaporate, u can add gelatine if u wan, but i just boil it longer it will become thicker!

Shang Seen said...

but the taste is almost the same as the jar strawberry jam, cann't really tell it was homemade 1 :(
My fren also commented like that...break my heart :(