Oven Scones Recipe

Ingredients for Oven Scones Recipe

• 4 cups flour
• 5 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 1 tablespoons sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 egg
• Sweet milk

Instructions

1. Rub vegetable shortening finely into flour, add sugar, salt, soda, and cream of tartar.
2. Beat egg, put half of it into cup, then with one-half and some sweet milk make other ingredients into soft dough.
3. Knead very little on floured baking board, divide into five pieces, make them smooth and roll out, not too thinly, cut them into four small cakes.
4. Lay them on a vegetable shorteninged tin, brush over with remaining egg and bake in hot oven ten minutes.
5. A few currants or raisins may be added if liked.
6. Sufficient for twenty small scones.