My grandmother used to make these and they disappeared so quickly! They are absolutely delicious hot with lots of butter, mmmmm!!! I can't get enough of them.
Recipe posted by Nickki
TREACLE SCONES
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Ingredients
- 8 oz self-raising flour
- 2 oz butter
- 1 oz granulated sugar (fine)
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons black molasses (or golden syrup)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 0.3 pints milk (approximately)
Method
- Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter. Mix in the sugar, cinnamon, treacle or syrup and enough milk to make a soft dough.
- Knead this lightly on a floured surface until it is both moist and elastic.
- Cut into rounds with a 2.5 inch pastry cutter.
- Grease a baking sheet and place the rounds on this.
- Brush with a little milk and bake for 10/15 minutes in an oven, pre-heated to 425F/220C/Gas Mark 7 until golden brown.
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