Buttery Original Scones for Teatime

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• ½ cup Unsalted Butter

Dice cold unsalted butter into small cubes.

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• 1½ cups Cake Flour
• 1 tbsp Baking Powder
• 2 tbsp Granulated Sugar
• ½ tsp Salt

Prepare all dry ingredients in another bowl.

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Sift the dry ingredients into another bowl and add diced butter.

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• Dough blender

Use hand or dough blender to slice through the butter cubes. You should be able to see small butter slices.

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• ½ cup milk

Add cold milk.

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• rubber spatula

Mix with a rubber sptula.

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Use hand to combine the dough. Do this quickly so butter doesn’t melt.

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Dust the working space and the dough with flour, roll out the dough, divide in half and stack in each other. Repeat this 3 times.

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Rest the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.

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Roll out the dough to 0.6 in. thick.

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Use a 2.76 in. cookie cutter to cut out the scones.

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• 1 Egg

Beat one egg to make egg wash and brush on the top.

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Bake at 355F preheated oven for 20 minutes.

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Enjoy with jam.