Kefir Scones

Freshly baked scones are such a simple and enjoyable treat. This recipe uses our pourable milk kefir for an extra soft scone.

For a good rise don’t spread them too far apart when baking and use a tin with higher sides if you have one. Scones love to push up against each other to get a good rise.

These are great ‘straight up’ with butter or high tea style with your favourite jam and whipped Camperdown cream.

Serves 4  

Ingredients

·     3 cups plain flour

·     1 tbsp baking powder

·     3/4 tsp salt

·     80g cold butter, cubed

·     3/4 cup caster sugar

·     1 cup The Collective Pourable Kefir

Method 

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Add cubed butter into flour mix and either cut into flour by rubbing through with you fingers or put into a food processor and process till butter and flour combined. (A few little pieces of butter visible is ok, you don’t want to warm the butter up.)

Add sugar, give a quick mix then add kefir. Roughly combine. This is a very rough flaky dough, if it needs a bit extra kefir add a little bit more but you don’t want a wet dough.

Turn out onto a bench and knead briefly to bring together. Don’t overwork!

Flatten out to 3cm thick and cut into 5cm rounds. Knead scraps together and cut out more scones, repeating till dough is used up.

Brush tops with milk and bake in the oven for 10-15mins.

Cool and rack and serve warm.