I can’t believe that it’s taken me 39 years (nearly 40 – but let’s not go into details, eek) to eat (never mind bake) my first scone! It was well worth the wait, however, as they were delicious 🙂 Last weekend I decided to bake Mary Berry’s Devonshire Scones; you can find the recipe on page 123 of her book 100 Cakes and Bakes. Will (my hubby) loves scones, so I thought I would give them a go.
Making the Scones
Step 1: Gather the ingredients
First of all, I gathered together all of the ingredients to make the scones:
- 450 g self-raising flour
- 2 rounded tsp baking powder
- 75 g butter (room temperature)
- 50 g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- Approximately 225 ml milk
Equipment-wise, you need two baking sheets. Mary Berry says that this recipe makes 8 – 10 large (9 cm) scones or 20 smaller ones. I was able to make 17 from my batch and they were about 5 to 5.5 cm in width, so I guess mine turned out to be on the smaller side. I used the cutter size recommended in the recipe, so they couldn’t really have turned out to be any other size anyway!
