Name: Date Scones
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 3 cups Edmonds standard flour; 6 tsp Edmonds baking powder; ¼ tsp salt; 1 Tbsp Chelsea white sugar; ½ tsp cinnamon; 75g butter; ¾ cup chopped dates; 1 to 1½ cups Meadow Fresh milk

Ingredients

3 cups Edmonds standard flour
6 tsp Edmonds baking powder
¼ tsp salt
1 Tbsp Chelsea white sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
75g butter
¾ cup chopped dates
1 to 1½ cups Meadow Fresh milk, approximately
extra milk

Method

Preheat the oven to 220ºC. Grease or flour a baking tray.
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the dates.
Add the milk and quickly mix with a round-bladed table knife to a soft dough. For light and tender scones the mixture should be quite soft and a little sticky. Scrape the dough onto the floured baking tray and flour the top.
Working quickly, pat the dough out to 2cm thickness and with a floured knife cut it into 12 even-sized pieces, then separate the scones to allow 2cm space between them. Brush the tops with milk and sprinkle with a mix of cinnamon and sugar if desired.
Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a wire rack to cool, wrapped in a clean tea towel to keep them soft.