Nice recipe for fruit scones please.

[Northerner]

Thanks very much!

Awww, I was hoping someone would have a recipe too!

Alas, Northerner, I only have a recipe for an American "scone", which I think is not what you're looking for....

I have a great Mary Berry recipe for plain scones and then I normally add the raisins. Is that what you are looking for? (tried them yesterday and they were delicious!)

8oz 225g sr flour
2 teasp baking powder
2oz 50g butter
1oz 25g caster sugar
1 egg
milk

Put flour and baking powder in bowl. Add butter and rub in till looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar. Crack egg into jug and add 150ml of milk. Mix in to the flour until it is a soft not too sticky dough (may not need all the milk). Turn on to floury surface - knead and roll out and cut into shapes you want (around a thickness of 1cm).

Put on baking tray, brush tops with leftover milk/egg combination.

Bake in oven for around 10 mins till golden brown. She says do oven at 200C - I find her oven things too hot so did mine at 180C for 10-15 mins and that was fine.

For fruit - add 2-3 oz dried fruit after the butter has been rubbed into the flour.

PS I didn't read the bit in the recipe where it says you don't need all the milk/egg thing and added it all and it was very sticky dough but still tasted delicious when it came out. Just meant we were all covered in dough (and everything the kids managed to touch afterwards )

foxinsocks - I think if you make the dough too sticky, the scones always turn out nicer anyway!

Thanks, foxinsocks!