Easy tasty Cheese Scones

Ingredients

225 gm Self Raising Flour.
3 Teaspoons Bicarbonate of Soda.
70 gm Butter, cubed.
1 Teaspoon Maldon Salt (or similar)
220 gm finely grated Strong Hard Cheese, odd and ends will do.
1 Large Egg.
150 ml whole Milk.

Method

Set oven to 220 C
Prepare a baking tray with silicone paper

Put all the dry ingredients plus the butter, except the cheese, into a food mixer and blend with the K blade. Hands are just as good if you don’t have a mixer, but they take longer. Blend until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs and then add 80% of the milk and keep mixing. Next add most of the the egg, lightly beaten or depending on your taste just gently scolded!  Finally add the cheese and the remainder of the milk and let the mixture come together.

Remove the cheesy dough from the blender bowl and put it on a lightly floured worktop. Knead it gently, then flatten it without beating it up, by hand, to a thickness of approximately two centimeters.
Using a cookie cutter cut out eight or so rounds and put them on the prepared baking tray. Lastly  using the last of the beaten egg, baste the tops of the scones immediately before they’re put in the oven.

Bake at 220 C for 15 minutes on a middle shelf by which time they should be a beautiful light brown colour and perfectly cooked. If they’re not quite cooked pop them back in the oven for five more minutes maximum.

As well as being an amazing savoury snack, with lashings of butter, of course, these little beauties make a delicious alternative to the bread that is often served on the side with bowls of soup.