Best-Ever Scones

Ingredients

• 1.600 gram self-raising flour
• 2.salt, pinch
• 3.300 millilitre cream
• 4.300 millilitre water

Method

1. 1.Preheat the oven to 220°C.
2. 2.Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. Gradually stir in cream and water and mix with your hands to a dough.
3. 3.Roll out on a floured board and cut with a scone cutter. Brush the top with milk and place in a hot oven.
4. 4.Cook until brown and done, approximately 15 minutes.

Notes

• From the 'Plates' SA cookbook by Ann Wise.
• Card intro: 'I cannot remember how many dozens of these we used to make when my partners and I spent 18 frantic months with Café Cuisine Affaire in Sydney's Northbridge. Certainly our customers just loved them!'
• No fat in the dough — cream provides the richness. The simplest possible scone formula.