Scones - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 3/4 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 lb butter, cold, cut into pieces
1 egg
1 cup milk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400- degrees F.
In a large bowl whisk together flour and sugar.
Using a pastry cutter or two knives, work butter into flour until it resembles coarse meal.
In a small bowl whisk egg and milk together.
Add one cup of the milk/egg mixture to the flour/butter mixture, mixing with your hands until a soft dough is formed, adding milk by the tablespoons if needed. Reserve remaining milk mixture.
Transfer dough to a floured board.
Pat dough into 1-inch thick rectangle.
Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter (or a coffee mug), cut out the scones. Gather remaining dough and repeat until you use up all the dough. You should get 12 scones.
Put scones on a lightly floured cookie sheet about 1/2 inch apart. Brush tops of scones with remaining milk mixture.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
Transfer to a cooling rack to cool.
Serve scones with jam or cream.