Recipe: Perfect Cream scones

Cream scones. Sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the butter, cream, and milk; stir until a spongy dough has formed. These scones couldn't be more basic — or more delicious.

Brush tops with cream, and sprinkle with sugar. Transfer scones to wire racks, and let cool. Serve warm or at room temperature, topped with strawberry preserves and whipped cream. You can have Cream scones using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cream scones

1. It's 1/2 cups of cream.
2. Prepare 2 teaspoons of sugar.
3. You need 1/2 teaspoons of salt.
4. You need 4 tablespoons of butter.
5. It's 2 of eggs.
6. Prepare 2 cups of flour.
7. It's 4 teaspoons of baking powder.

Lightly brush the tops of the scones with the egg mixture, if desired. Using a spatula, transfer the scones to the wire rack to cool. Serve warm or cool completely and store in an airtight container. Sift the flour, and then add the baking powder, sugar and salt and sift again.

Cream scones instructions

1. Sift dry ingredients.
2. Blend in butter with a pastry knife.
3. Add well beaten eggs and cream.
4. Turn out onto floured surface.
5. Roll till 3/4 inch thick.
6. Cut into triangles.
7. Place on greased baking sheet.
8. Bake for 15 minutes in a 450 oven.

In a large mixing bowl, cut in the butter or shortening. Add butter and toss to coat. English scones with jam and cream. There is nothing more English than sitting down to a pot of tea with some English scones and clotted cream. Scones are a traditional component of the British cream tea and afternoon tea, and we serve scones with clotted cream and jam.