Sweet pear scones - Söta päronscones

SWEET PEAR SCONES
Söta päronscones

Everyone loves a good scone and these pear scones are easy to bake – perfect with tea or as an in-between snack.

12 scones

2 ¾ cups fine wheat flour

2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ cup light-coloured muscovado sugar
1 ¾ oz diced butter or margarine
1 lightly beaten egg
2 lightly cooked, mashed, large, firm pears

Heat the oven to 390F. Line a baking plate with baking paper.

Sift the flour into a bowl and blend with baking powder and muscovado sugar. Add the fat and use your fingers to make a crumble dough.

Mix pears and egg and blend this into the flour mixture. Quickly work the dough together and turn it out onto a floured work surface. Roll out to an approx ¾ inch thick plate. Use a round cookie cutter, diameter approx 1 ¼ inch, or a glass, and take out 12 round pieces of the dough. Put them on the baking plate.

Bake the scones for about 15 minutes until they have risen and turned golden. Take out of the oven and serve warm with just butter or with marmalade, jam or honey.

Enjoy!

Bella