Preheat the oven to 200 ° C and grease the baking sheet well.
Whisk the egg. Mix the flour, baking powder and sugar in a mixing bowl. Mix the butter into the flour with your fingers until the batter looks like breadcrumbs. Make a well in the middle and pour in the milk. Mix everything into a slightly sticky dough. Roll out the dough approx. 2 cm thick and cut out scones with a tea glass (diameter approx. 5 cm). Place these on the baking sheet, brush with egg and bake for about 15-20 minutes.
British pastry recipe served with butter and jam for morning tea. Traditionally for scones, not very sweet shortbread dough with milk is kneaded, the process is very simple. Due to repeated folding and stretching, the dough in the finished baked goods bec...