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.

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Vanessa

I wish I had read the reviews before baking these.
So bitter and just not pleasant at all.

Kaz

Love this recipe . The only thing I do differently is cook/ soften the dates in a small amount of water first as I’m not a massive fan of big chunks of dates (add the milk to this mix ) Gives the scones a lovely caramel flavour and spreads them nice and evenly throughout the mixture . Have never had a baking soda flavour to my scones so definitely use the full six teaspoons .

Alice

Great recipe. Love adding butter once it’s cooked

Chris

Delicious standard recipie. I always use self raising flour to take the guess work out of measuring raising agents, nicely risen every time

Anita

I really thought I could rely on Edmonds for a good scone but the taste was so bitter with 6 tsp baking powder...I had to throw the whole batch in the bin, even cream and jam couldn't save them.

Old man baker

Just perfect

Susan

Used 4.5tsp baking powder. Much better taste. Hate the taste of baking powder.

Andreea

Easy as!!

Shane

Oven temp too high.

Penelope

Bitter as too much Baking powder
Had to bin whole batch! :(

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