Best Ever Cheese Scone Recipe
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Best Ever Cheese Scone Recipe

Light, fluffy cheddar scones from a treasured 1960s family recipe — best warm with butter.

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This recipe is the one my Mum used to make for us when I was a child in the 1960s and 1970s. I have always thought they were the best cheese scones I have ever tasted, and that statement still stands to this very day.

I prefer to make these cheese scones using margarine, as it makes them lighter and fluffier. But if you don't have margarine, you can make these using unsalted butter instead. Give them a go. I'm sure you will agree they are the best cheese scones you have ever tasted. Simply the best.

Prep
20 mins
Cook
15 mins
Serves
6
Total
35 mins

Ingredients

  • 115g plain flour
  • 1¼ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp cream of tartar
  • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 28g margarine (or unsalted butter)
  • 85g grated mature English cheddar
  • Pinch of cayenne pepper
  • Approx 50ml milk, to bind

Method

  1. 01

    Sieve the dry ingredients into a large bowl.

  2. 02

    Rub the margarine into the flour with your fingertips.

  3. 03

    Mix in the grated cheese and cayenne pepper.

  4. 04

    Stir in the milk until the ingredients are bound together.

  5. 05

    Roll out to 2cm thickness and cut out scones using a 2-inch pastry cutter.

  6. 06

    Place on baking paper on a baking tray.

  7. 07

    Bake at 210°C for 15 minutes.

  8. 08

    Cool on a wire rack and eat warm, spread with butter.

💡 If you want, double the ingredients to get 12 scones.

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