Scone Recipe

[LyndaB]

Here's the thing. I have been asked to make 100 scones for a street party to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee (for English Cream Teas) All the recipes I have tell you to eat the scones on the day they are made. However, this is completely impractical due to work commitments. Does anyone have a recipe for scones that will keep for a day (or two at the most?)

[sherrardk]

I recently made some using SR flour and they kept for a couple of days and were still lovely and moist - I think it was a recipe off the net but it had no baking soda or anything extra (did cut them really thick though).

[jamesnan]

I frequently make scones, and freeze some, using an old recipe.
1lb self raising flour
teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoons sugar
couple pinch salt
4 ozs soft margarine
milk
about 250 grams natural yogurt

Rub the margarine into the sifted flour and baking powder, add sugar and salt. Add natural yogurt, and enough milk to make a soft consistency. Put onto floured board, and handle as little as possible. Roll out, or push out with your hands and cut into rounds about 1" thick. .
Place on baking tray,brush with milk and cook in oven Gas 6-7 for about 12 mins or until golden and cooked.
Sultanas can be added into the flour mix if wanted.

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.butcherbak...chilli-cheese-scones/

[DTCwordfan]

and delish.......

[spotit3]

A retired HE teacher gave me a really handy method for scones.
Melt 50 g margarine in large bowl in microwave, add 1 egg and 4 heaped dst sugar and mix in. Then add approx 200ml buttermilk. add enough soda bread flour to make a soft but not sticky dough. (should use approx 400g soda bread flour.)turn out and knead lightly on floured board before cutting out. If in a really hurry, roll pastry into a square and just cut out small squares with a knife. I found these so easy to make, so tasty and last a coupe of days.
If you fancy apple and cinnamon use brown sugar in place of white and add th chopped apple and a tsp of cinnamon before adding flour. These are gorgeous.

[boxtops]

Freeze them.

[welshlibranr]

scones freeze well, just bake and cool them, and then freeze them straight away, then defrost them for about an hour!............they'll be fine!.....

[seekeerz]

I frequently freeze scones - will add the recipe, but 2 minutes on high in the microwave, having placed scones [ 6 at a time ] in strong brown paper bag, then come out hot and fresh - brilliant !!

[chokkie]

I recently made a batch of scones, with a recipe by one of the Daily Telegraph's cooks, using strong flour instead of ordinary. They came out a treat, until then I hadn't made such successful scones in a long time! Possibly worth checking out on the Daily telegraph website somewhere, or googling "Rose Prince recipes". Yum.

[seekeerz]

sorry, amendment to the above - DEFROST, not High, for 2 minutes, and they come out delish !!

[LyndaB]

Thanks for all your replies. I will experiment with all the recipes and see which works best! The recipe I use (Queen Delia Smith's) is great and very easy, but as I said, they do not keep very well as there is very little fat in them. Thanks once again!

[LyndaB]

I have to thank jamesnan here - I have just tried this recipe for the first time to experiment with it. Because there are only two of us (eventually I will have to make over 100 scones!!!) I halved the recipe. Instead of the milk, I added 1 egg to the yoghurt (so the original recipe would need 2 eggs) and it has made the nicest scone I ever tasted. I have saved a few for tomorrow (don't forget - it still has to be good the day after lol) with a bit of cream and jam for the favoured few at work and I will let you know how it went. But so far so good!!!!

[LyndaB]

Well - the day after, the scones were just as lovely as when they first came out of the oven! I am now going to experiment further with the recipe and try freezing some baked scones to see if they are as successful. Once again, thanks for all the suggestions!