Recipes Scones & Shortcake Recipes English Afternoon Tea Scones Back to Scones & Shortcake Recipes English Afternoon Tea Scones Total Time 40m Prep Time 25m Bake Time 15m Serves 12 Skill Level Easy 2 Reviews 4 star rating Save Save this recipe Share What could be more British than a classic afternoon tea and of course the star of the show, the mighty scone? Add a twist to your favourite bake, by infusing English Afternoon tea to your scones, then serve with your jam of choice and a large helping of clotted cream. Method Lightly grease two baking trays. Preheat the oven to 220°C gas (200°C fan / gas mark 7) Place the flour and baking powder into a bowl, add the butter and rub together using your fingertips until you reach a crumble, then add the sugar. In a saucepan, heat the milk (but do not boil) then add the teabags and remove from the heat. Allow the tea to steep for 5 minutes before squeezing and removing, then leave the milk to cool. Beat together the eggs and add to the cooled milk, then leave aside a couple of tablespoons of this mixture for glazing later on. Gradually incorporate the egg/milk mixture to the dry ingredients until its forms a soft dough. Turn the dough out on to a floured surface and roll out with a rolling pin until 1-2cm thick. Stamp out circles of dough using a fluted cutter. Place the scones on the baking tray and glaze the tops with the remaining egg/milk mixture using a pastry brush. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes until golden. Serve the scones with jam, clotted cream and a cup of afternoon tea. Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe British Bakes Reviews Charlie Davidson 21 November 2017 4 star rating Steeping the tea bags in the milk works surprisingly well with the scones - which doesn't last long! Magdalena Tarnawska 10 September 2017 3 star rating Nice and fluffy but delicious Leave Your Thoughts Unfortunately reviews are not permitted to non-registered users. Please Log in to leave your review or ask us a question. Ingredients Metric For the Scones 450g Self-Raising White Flour (We use Allinson) 2 tsp Baking Powder 75g Unsalted Butter (Room Temperature) 50g Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar (We love Billington's) This is the highest quality caster sugar available and is a great natural alternative to refined caster sugar. It has a warm golden colour from its unrefined nature and is fine grained with a subtle buttery taste, making it perfect for deliciously light sponges, shortbread and macaroons. 2 Medium Eggs 225ml Whole Milk 4 English Afternoon Tea Bags (We use Twining's) For the Filling To Serve Strawberry Jam To Serve Clotted Cream Utensils 2 x Baking Trays Mixing Bowl Saucepan Fluted Cutter Rolling Pin Recipe Alternatives Fat rascals Fat rascals Total 35m Serves 8 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet Buttermilk and sour cherry scones Buttermilk and sour cherry scones Total 35m Serves 4 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet Cheese Scones Cheese Scones Total 35m Serves 12 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet
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