Recently, I was brought back to more than 10 years ago when I visited a friend in Australia, an ex-colleague from my previous company who invited me to his home. His daughter at that time, introduced me to the most delicious home baked scones and I was in love with scones ever since then. It was their family recipe and she took over from her mother to make them everyday.
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The ingredients were so simple, flour, butter, egg, some sugar, a bit of salt and baking powder. The way she made it was also simple and it was like a tea staple for them. The wife and daughter could whip up scones within half hour everyday and have them with tea.
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When I returned home, I would look for buttery scones. But I have to say that it wasn’t easy to find good scones, just like it wasn’t easy to find good croissant. To me, a good scone or croissant has to be flaky, soft and buttery. Some of the ones I bought and tried were hard and not buttery. They were probably stingy with butter or used cheap butter.
I also tried making scones myself. My earlier attempts didn’t work at all. They turned out hard as rock. I kneaded too much as I later found out. There are many variations of recipes available online but I managed to try one about two years ago that I was quite proud of because it worked and it tasted buttery, the way I like them. Each time I felt like scones, I would use that recipe, a recipe for fluffy English scones though I do not know what is the difference with other scones.

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