ingredients#

450g      self rising flour
2 tsp     baking powder
50g       castor sugar
100g      butter
2         eggs
~ 2 cups  milk or alternative

instructions#

  • mix dry ingredients in a bowl
  • kneed in softened butter, you’re making biscuits!
  • mix milk and eggs in a separate cup, save a little
  • mix in wet ingredients
  • roll out 1/4 inch thick, cut with old-fashioned biscuit cutters
  • dip top in milk mixture, then into sugar
  • bake for 12-15 minutes, turn halfway

notes#

these are traditionally served with clotted cream. also great with jam or marmalade