How To Make Scones

By Danilo Alfaro, About.com Guide

Cut Butter Into Flour

Here's what you'll need to make these delicious, buttery scones:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour, unsifted
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
• ½ tsp salt (table salt, not Kosher)
• 4 Tbsp butter (½ stick)
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup heavy cream
• ½ cup dried currants

To begin, combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Then add cubes of cool butter and cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a pastry blender as shown here.

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