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.

Add your review

Leigh Peters

Awesome

Kath

I soak the dates with the cinnamon in hot water overnight and always use SR flour. Delicious

I replaced the flour with Self Raising flour, no baking powder and turned out perfect!

Nev

Bitter. Did not read the comments about baking powder in time.

Gabby

Great recipe, easy to follow and turns out delicious

N/A

I used only 5 tsp of baking powder, but the scones still turned out to have a bitter undertone...Not the best.

Judy

For 3 cups of flour, 6 teaspoons of baking powder is correct!
It’s a rainy day so going to lake these now for when the grandkids come home from school

Paul

Novice baker but these were best scones I’d made so far. As to comments on baking powder, I had no problems with the amount therefore conclude some have misread the recipe. Definitely will be making again.