Nelly's Scones

Music night at Nellybert's and scones were served again. And once again Brendan asked for the recipe. The first time I wrote it down for him. Then I sent it in an an email. This time I'm going to blog it and link it to Facebook.

It's a cross between my mother's recipe and  a Nigella Lawson recipe. This is it. I don't know if soda bread flour is sold outside of Ireland. Probably not. Sorry about that.

Ingredients

• 500g soda bread flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 50g butter
• 25g lard or more butter
• 1 egg beaten
• enough buttermilk to make up to 300 ml when added to beaten egg

Method 

1. Preheat oven to 220°. 
2. Sift the dry ingredients together and rub in the butter thoroughly. 
3. Add the milk and stir very briefly. 
4. Knead lightly together on a floured surface.
5. Roll and cut approx. 12 scones
6. Bake for 10-15 minutes.