Scone time

So today I decided to make scones, because I had never made them before, and because we were really hungry after having walked in crisp forest air for about 2 hours. So I looked up a receipe at the BBC website, which is my default baking website if the thing I want to bake is not in one of my cookbooks, which the scones weren't (there was one weird receipe which included mascarpone, which we did not have in the house, strangely enough).

Scone time!

So I found this receipe and it looked alright. I prepared all my things, mixed my dry ingredients, then mixed in the milk (to which I had added half of the egg, because most receipes for scones require an egg to be mixed in, and I thought they might become very dry without it), at which point I should have "a soft dough". Well, I can tell you, it was soft alright. Soft like porrige is soft, or pancake batter, but not like something that I can subsequently "pat out" and then "stamp out rounds" from. Must've been because of the egg I added. So I added about 100-150 g extra flour, which turned the dough into something that could actually be handled, but at that point I had messed with the receipe so much that I thought it would never work.  So I cut out some rounds with a glass, glazed them with the egg, put them in the oven, and feared the worst.
But lo and behold, it worked like a charm!
So we had them with some butter and jam and a nice cup of tea, and now feel completely revived!