Old English Scones

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I always thought that scones were a type of deep fried bread. Around here that is what people typically think of when someone says “scones”. Actually scones are a type of flakey baked bread, a lot like a big biscuit. English scones are served mostly with tea or coffee, and since I usually don’t partake of coffee or tea we eat it with milk for breakfast. This is a great food storage recipe. Your kidlets and husband will like it, it is easy to modify to suit the taste of your family, and it can be used for dinner, snacks or breakfast. So here goes!


Here are our ingredients:
2 cups flour (white or wheat)
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup shortening
1 egg
1/2 cup milk

The only thing that can’t come out of your food storage is the egg, unless of course keeping chickens in your backyard is part of your plan. If you don’t have an egg, just use a little more milk. You can also use buttermilk or yogurt in place of the milk.

First you mix all the dry ingredients


Then add shortening

Then you “cut” the shortening in, using a pastry cutter, or two butter knives or a fork. You don’t want the shortening to mix into the dry ingredients, it needs to look like a bunch of flour and pea sized clumps of shortening.

If I am making this for breakfast I will mix everything up to this point the night before then cover it in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge. You don’t have to do this step and it will still be yummy!

Here we are the next morning just coming out of the fridge. (Yawn)

(I forgot to add the cinnamon the night before, I like to add cinnamon, I think I am discovering that cinnamon is my favorite spice)

add your egg

and milk, or buttermilk, or yogurt…..

Mix it all up until it is a crumbly mess. Don’t mix it up until it is all combined well, that is what makes it flakey and crispy

With your hands moosh it into a ball

Put it on your pan (or stone, I like useing a baking stone for this) and with your fingers spread it out to about a inch thick, using a pizza cutter make 8 wedges.

sprinkle it with cinnamon and sugar, or sugar, or chocolate chips, or colored sprinkles….whatever

Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes until it is golden crispy

I serve it with apple butter (this stuff is to die for! Thanks Katie for talking me through making my apple butter)

Yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!

This recipee is really easy to modify! If you want to use it for dinner don’t put any sugar in it and it is like a biscuit. Or (one of my favorite ways) you can add fruit. I like blueberries. When you add fruit double the sugar, and add frozen or fresh fruit when you add the wet ingredients. I like it with cinnamon and chopped apples. You could add chocolate chips or nuts too. Serve it with jam, apple sauce, cold milk, hot chocolate, diet coke, tea or coffee ( if that is what moves you).

(if I am serving this as breakfast I am learning that I need to double the recipe for my family of 7, or serve something with it, fresh fruit, scrambled eggs or sausage)

5 thoughts on “Old English Scones”

  1. My family will LOVE these. They look yummy. I want your apple butter recipe. HInt hint. Thanks. I’m starting our soup in 1hr. so it will be on my site either later this evening or tomorrow morning.

  2. you need to ask Katie for the apple butter recipe. I was trying to make apple pie preserves and the bottles didn’t seal, so I had all these apples cut and flavored and I didn’t know what to do, so she walked me through making it. I don’t know if I could do it again without asking her. :0!

  3. Hey… That finished product looks just like the plate of yummy stuff I ate this morning.

  4. You make me laugh! I love the step by step instructions and the pictures! They look delicious I am going to try them for saturday morning, unlike you thats the only day we make breakfast.

  5. Wow, Aimee! Ilove your step by step photos and the recipes sound so good. I am going to try this. I want you apple butter recipe, it looks so good.