Do you love English food or do you long for a little holiday feeling?
Then bake scones and enjoy them with the typical clotted cream.
The British are known to love
scones
for their afternoon tea time
- small bread-like pastries
that are served with jam * and clotted cream (a type of thick cream).
If you feel like having a cup of English tea, just bake the delicious rolls yourself!
Of course, they also taste great for breakfast or brunch.
The recipe is prepared in no time and the scones are on the table after 20 minutes.
Of course, they are best warm.
Scones recipe: You need these ingredients for English pastries
Ingredients for 8 scones:
350 g flour + a little more for dusting
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
85 g butter, cut into cubes
3 tbsp powdered sugar
175 ml milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 squirt of lemon juice
1 egg for brushing
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Best enjoyed while still warm: home-baked English scones.
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English recipe: how to bake scones yourself
Preheat the oven to 220 ° C top / bottom heat (200 ° C convection).
Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
Add the butter and rub everything with the palms of your hands until the mixture looks crumbly.
Then stir in the powdered sugar.
Heat the milk in the microwave for about 30 seconds until it is warm but not hot.
Add the vanilla extract and lemon juice.
Slide a baking sheet with parchment paper in the oven.
Make a well in the flour mixture and pour in the liquid ingredients.
Mix everything quickly, but not too much.
Sprinkle some flour on the work surface and tip the dough on top.
Sprinkle a little more flour on the dough and your hands and fold the dough two or three times until it's a little smoother.
Don't knead too much!
Roll out the dough about 4 cm thick.
Take a round cookie cutter (about 5 cm), dip it in some flour and cut out four scones.
Knead the remaining dough again, roll it out and cut out four more scones.
Brush the top of the scones with a beaten egg and carefully place the scones on the hot baking sheet.
Bake the scones for 10 minutes until they are risen and golden brown.
The scones taste best
warm or cold on the same day.
You can also freeze them once they've cooled down.
If you want to eat them, just let them thaw at room temperature and bake them in the oven at 160 ° C for a few minutes.
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Plus: homemade clotted cream
Clotted cream
is made from untreated, raw milk that is gently heated.
Small lumps of cream form, which is where the name comes from.
You can buy this light cream made from cream in England, but it gets more difficult here.
But no problem, you can do it yourself!
Instead of untreated milk, we simply use whipped cream.
However, you will need some time to prepare.
Recipe for 200-250 g clotted cream:
The day before, pour 500 g of whipped cream into an ovenproof dish or saucepan.
Put these in a larger baking dish.
Pour hot water into the larger form so that the smaller form is 2–3 cm high in the water.
Put the molds in the oven and switch it to 70 ° C top / bottom heat.
Now let the cream warm up gently in the oven for about 8 hours: a thin skin will form on the cream - do not stir under any circumstances!
Then carefully lift out the mold with the cream and put it in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day carefully skim off the upper, solid layer and transfer it to a clean container with a lid.
You can use cream that is still liquid elsewhere, e.g.
B. for sauces.
Chill the clotted cream until ready to serve.
It can be kept refrigerated for approx. 1 week.
Now you can
serve
your
homemade scones with
your
own clotted cream and strawberry or raspberry jam
.
By the way: in most British regions the scones are first coated with clotted cream and then with jam.
Only in Cornwall is it exactly the other way round.
Try out how you like it better!
(mad) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen editorial network.
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