Best Way to Cook Fruit Scones Recipe

Fruit Scones.

You can make tasty Fruit Scones using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it with this recipe.

Basic Ingredients of Fruit Scones

1. You need 3/4 cup of dried fruit.
2. Prepare 2 cup of all purposes flour.
3. You need 1/3 cup of sugar.
4. You need 2 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
5. You need 1/3 cup of margerine.
6. You need 2/3 cup of milk.

Fruit Scones instructions

1. Hydrate dried fruit by pouring water or juice over fruit and letting it set. Submerge or use less and stir occasionally. Rum or brandy could also be used..
2. Preheat oven to 400°F.
3. Mix dry ingredients. Flour, sugar and baking powder..
4. Cut in butter, or margarine, into dry ingredients..
5. Drain excess liquid from dried fruit, then mix evenly with previous ingredients..
6. Mix in 2/3 cups of milk and need dough a few times with an extra splash of milk if it is to dry to hold together. Keep a firm dough. Not too much extra.
7. On wax paper sprinkle cinomon sugar (1/2 cup sugar and 1 Tbs cinomon) as you normally would do with flour. Roll out dough to an 8"circle.Sprinkle a good amount of cinomon sugar on top. Cut into 1" wide triangles. A pizza dough cutter works best. Place on a buttered cookie sheet..
8. Bake 15 minutes at 400°F.