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Cheese scones with watercress and goat’s cheese

Name: Cheese scones with watercress and goat’s cheese
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: PT10-12M
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 35g chilled butter, cut into small dice, plus extra for greasing; 225g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting; 1½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp English mustard powder; ¼ tsp cayenne pepper; ½ tsp fine salt; 150g mature Cheddar (vegetarian Cheddar if required), coarsely grated; 1 free-range medium egg; 1 heaped tbsp soured cream; 50-70ml whole milk; For the filling; 150g soft, rindless goat’s cheese; 75g bunch of watercress, stalks trimmed

Published: 30 Apr 10
Updated: 18 Mar 24

This cheesy scones recipe is a fabulous variation, as it uses goat’s cheese as well as the more usual cheddar. Eat them soon after they’ve come out of the oven, while they are still faintly warm.

Easy
May 2010

Test kitchen approved

Serves 8
Takes 15 min to make, 10-12 min to cook

This cheesy scones recipe is a fabulous variation, as it uses goat’s cheese as well as the more usual cheddar. Eat them soon after they’ve come out of the oven, while they are still faintly warm.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories: 288kcals
Fat: 17g (10.5 saturated)
Protein: 12.9g
Carbohydrates: 22.3g (1g sugar)
Salt: 1.5g

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Ingredients

35g chilled butter, cut into small dice, plus extra for greasing
225g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp English mustard powder
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
½ tsp fine salt
150g mature Cheddar (vegetarian Cheddar if required), coarsely grated
1 free-range medium egg
1 heaped tbsp soured cream
50-70ml whole milk

For the filling

150g soft, rindless goat’s cheese
75g bunch of watercress, stalks trimmed

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Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan200°C/gas 7. Lightly grease a non-stick baking sheet with butter.
Sift the self-raising flour, baking powder, mustard powder, cayenne pepper, black pepper and salt into the bowl of a food processor. Add the diced butter and process into very fine crumbs. Tip the mixture into a large bowl and stir in 100g of the grated Cheddar.
Break the egg into a measuring jug, add the soured cream and make up to 150ml with the milk. Beat together well.

Pour all but 2 tsp of the egg, soured cream and milk mixture into the dry ingredients, mix briefly with a round-bladed knife and bring together with your hands to make a soft dough, taking care not to over-mix it. Tip the mixture onto a lightly floured work surface and knead very lightly and very briefly until just smooth.
Lightly roll out the dough until it is 1.5cm thick. Dip a 7cm plain pastry cutter into some flour, and use to cut out 8 rounds, gently re-kneading the trimmings together and re-rolling as you go.
Place the scones spaced apart on the baking sheet, brush with the rest of the egg and milk mixture and sprinkle the tops with the remaining grated cheese. Bake the scones for 10-12 minutes until golden. Remove from the oven, slide onto a wire rack and leave to cool a little.
To serve, split the scones in half, then spread the bottom half generously with the goat’s cheese. Top with a generous amount of watercress, then the top half of the scone, and eat straight away.