• Cooking Time: 12
• Servings: 12
• Preparation Time: 15
• 1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
• 1/4 cup Sugar
• 3 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1/3 cup Butter or Shortening
• 1/4 cup Currents or Raisins (*If you don’t like sweet scones, reduce the sugar by half and add cheese instead of raisins)
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1 whole Egg + 1 Yolk (use the extra white to brush top of scones before baking)
• 1/3 cup Mashed Potatoes

1. - Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt
2. - Cut in butter
3. - Add in raisins (or Cheese) and mix with a fork
4. - Mix milk and egg + yolk together, then stir into dry ingredients
5. - Add mashed potatoes and stir until mixture forms a ball.
6. - Turn out onto floured surface and knead gently 20 times
7. - Roll into a ½ inch thick circle, brush with egg white (and sprinkle with sugar if you are using the original sweeter recipe)
8. - Cut into 12 pie shaped wedges and place on ungreased baking sheet
9. - Bake for 12 minutes at 420 degrees (give or take 5 degrees, depending on your oven)

This is one of my grandmother's "tried and true" recipes. It's easy to change the scones from sweet to savoury and play around with the add-in ingredients. Submitted by: "Cally Wilson"