Cheese scones are a great alternative to cheese on toast for breakfast and go down well as an addition to a fry-up breakfast with family and friends and make a yummy quick and easy lunch.
Cheese Scones
Ingredients
2 tsp butter
1 cup flour
3 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 cup mature cheddar cheese grated
1 egg
1 tsp water
7 tsp milk or sour cream or cream or buttermilk
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200˚C.
- Rub the butter into the dry ingredients and add the cheese.
- Beat together the egg plus the liquid and add to the dry mixture.
- Place into greased patty pans.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
Submitted by: Melody Whittal, Port Elizabeth
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I have never tried scones in a patty tin, so this is an interesting approach that I may give a go.
It is quite different for scones – I’m quite tempted to call them muffins actually. I hope you try them. 🙂
Cheese muffins sound great!
Hi and thanks for stopping by. I have some more muffin/scone recipes to come in the next couple of weeks. Just to whet your appetite, lemon and poppy seed muffins, health muffins, what I know as traditional scones, and another cheese muffin recipe. 😉
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I’ve never had a cheese scone before. Great idea! I’ll bet they would be tasty with American “chili.” It would be a nice alternative to cornbread.
What a fabulous idea of the chili. Not sure exactly what American chili is but I am picturing a sweet chilli sauce. Yum.
American Chili varies by region and by family, but this is a recipe similar to what I make out of my head:
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/lighter-beef-chili
At least for me it’s a soup of ground beef, kidney beans, and tomatoes flavored with cumin and chili powder and topped with cheddar cheese and a little sour cream. In the southern USA it is often paired with cornbread.
Thanks so much Michael. I had completely the wrong idea. I think when you put the word American in front of the Chili, it set me off on the wrong road.
When I started cooking a long time ago and a recipe called for “chilies,” (especially “green chilies” which is a really generic term) I was so confused what they were talking about because I only knew the hearty soup.
Hi Michael, I always err on the side of caution when it comes to anything “hot” – I am not that brave when it comes to chillies.
Me too. I usually put in half what is called for! Anyway, I think I will try your cheese scones sometime!
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