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Scones from the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans
Ingredients
3 cups flour
4½ tsp baking powder]
a pinch of salt
25g butter
1 cup milk (or ½ a cup milk and ½ a cup of cream)
Method
Sift together dry ingredients. Rub in butter and add milk/cream. Mix to a soft dough.
Knead on a floured board and place on a hot oven tray. Bake in a hot oven at 230degC for 10-15 minutes.
Remember the most important thing for this recipe is to have a light hand.
Do not cut the scones until several minutes after they come out of the oven.
Serve with jam and cream.
Recipe requested by Margaret Lister, of Dunedin.
Recipe provided by Vulcan Hotel.
If you have enjoyed a dish in an Otago cafe or restaurant and would like the recipe, write to Ask a Chef, Features, Otago Daily Times, PO Box 517, Dunedin, fax 474-7422, or email odt.features@odt.co.nz, including your name, address and a daytime telephone number, and we will request it.
