{"id":2619,"slug":"plain-scones","title":"Plain Scones","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["450 g (2 cups / 16 oz / 1 lb) cake flour, plus more as needed","½ tsp salt","2 tsp baking powder","3 tbsp caster sugar","5 tbsp cold butter, cut into pieces","1 egg","120–180 ml (½–¾ cup / 4–6 fl oz) heavy cream, plus more for brushing","Fruit jam (usually raspberry or strawberry)"],"ingredients_norm":["cake flour","salt","baking powder","superfine sugar","cold butter","egg","heavy cream","fruit jam"],"steps":["Preheat the oven to 230°C (450°F / Gas Mark 8).","Put the flour, salt, baking powder and 2 tablespoons of the sugar in a food processor and pulse to combine. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles cornmeal.","Add the egg and just enough cream to form a slightly sticky dough. If it’s too sticky, add a little flour, but very little; it should still stick a little to your hands.","Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead once or twice, then press it into a 2 cm (¾ inch) thick circle. Cut out 5 cm (2 inch) rounds with a biscuit cutter or glass.","Put the rounds on an ungreased baking sheet. Gently reshape the leftover dough and cut out more scones.","Brush the top of each scone with a bit of cream and sprinkle with a little of the remaining sugar.","Bake for 9 to 11 minutes, or until the scones are a beautiful golden brown. Let them cool and serve immediately."],"categories":["Recipes for dessert","Recipes for scones","Recipes using butter","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using superfine sugar","Recipes using heavy cream","Recipes using egg","Recipes using cake flour","Recipes using fruit preserves"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":35,"servings":null,"yield_text":"8–10 scones","difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Plain_Scones","source_ref":"4587477","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Plain_Scones&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"b553ff9ccc80d1d7e0078eb49d7d1b62d45ba1afd7d5f2c5822108c5fa8a2c70","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:15Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:15Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/plain-scones"}