Here is my really simple recipe I always use for yummy cheese scones.
Ingredients
55g/2oz of real butter not the tubbed shite!
225g/8oz of self raising flour
Pinch of salt
25g/1oz of extra mature/mature cheddar cheese
150ml/5floz of milk.
Some folk add mustard powder but I cant stand mustard so I just double up on the cheese to make them really cheesey.
Method
Heat oven to 220*/gas mark 7. Rub together salt flour and butter between your fingers to a fine breadcrumb consistency, stir in the cheese, mustard if you're adding the dreadful stuff and the milk extremely gently.
Onto a floured surface tip the scone mixture out and gently mould into a large circle 3/4 inch thick, using a floured cutter cut out as many scones as you can before remoulding the mix and cutting again. Pop onto a baking tray and brush with milk, try not to get the milk to run down the sides. Into the oven for 12-15 minutes depending on your oven, take out when well risen and nicely coloured. Leave to cool on a wire rack, then slice in half and smother in proper butter!
I generally double the recipe and freeze them, only takes about an hour to defrost and they are still as fresh as out the oven ones. Scones really need to be either eaten or frozen on the same day you make them as they go stale extremely quickly.
Fresh out the oven yumminess!
Nicely risen and sliced ready for lashings of butter!
