Royal Family's chef shares recipe for The Queen's favourite scones
Now you can snack like Royalty
Lockdown hasn't been particularly kind to us. We are all missing the comforts of our favourite places to eat and having a good go at recreating it at home. There have been numerous attempts to make a passable KFC, I've never seen so many homemade McMuffins, and if ever you needed reminded of how much we all miss Greggs, there are some catastrophic sausage rolls to feast your eyes on.
Some of these places have heard our pleas and given us the recipes for their most popular items, Subway have been particularly kind. Wagamama even made videos with their head chef to show us how to recreate their iconic katsu.
Never one to let her people down, the most recent person to furnish us with a helpful recipe to get us through lockdown is Her Royal Highness, herself, Queen Elizabeth II.
Ok, it's actually her chef, but he assures us this recipe is the one the Queen likes most.
For that regal touch to your afternoon tea
Ingredients
- 500g plain flour
- 28g baking powder
- 94g butter
- 2 whole eggs
- 140ml butter milk
- 86g sugar
- 100g sultanas (soak in hot water for 30 mins)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- Mix the flour, baking powder, butter and sugar in a bowl, till it resembles crumbs
- Separately, whisk together the eggs and buttermilk before adding it to the crumb mixture
- Mix this until it forms a smooth dough
- If you are adding sultanas, add them now and mix then so they are evenly distributed
- Flatten the dough onto a surface and cover it. Leave to rest for 30 mins
- Roll the dough to a thickness of 2.5cm and cut to the shape you would like the scones to be. Place them on a baking tray lined with parchment
- Let them rest for a further 20 mins
- Whisk an egg and brush the mix over each of the scones
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes, till they are risen and golden
- Let them cool and serve with jam and clotted cream
Recipe Notes
Very Important: The Queen insists on jam before cream.
Recipe by
The Royal Pastry Chefs
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