Buttermilk Scones

I've often heard about scones, but I had no idea what it was and how it tastes like. I only knew that it is often served in high teas and you eat it with cream and jam. Fortunately, I had just purchased a "Women's Weekly High Tea" book which featured a recipe for scones. It was easy to follow and not a lot of ingredients involved, so I was able to execute the recipe straight away without any hesitation. Please note: The recipe below is adapted from "Women's Weekly High Tea" book. 

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 1/2 cups self raising flour
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• 30 gr butter, chopped
• 1 1/4 cups of buttermilk
• Jams/conserve of your choice
• Double cream

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celcius and grease a square cake pan.
2. Sift flour and sugar into a large bowl and rub in butter.
3. Add buttermilk. Use knife to cut the buttermilk through the flour mixture to make a soft, sticky dough. Turn dough onto floured surface, knead gently until smooth. (For this step, I just mix everything together and let my standing mixer work the dough).
4. press dough out to 2 cm thickness, cut out 4cm rounds. Place scones, just touching, in pan. Gently knead scraps of dough together and repeat the process. Brush scones with extra buttermilk.
5. Bake scones about 15 minutes. Serve warm with jam/conserve and cream.

This is recipe is my favourite if I'm hosting or invited to a high tea party at home. I always get raves for this recipe. It's easy to make and I just love love the taste of buttermilk scones. The cream and jam adds the extra flavour to it, which I think it's very nice. Yummo!