Scotch Scones

Ingredients:

4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Milk


Preparation:

• Thoroughly mix, while dry, 4 cups of sifted flour, loosely measured, with 3 teaspoons of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of salt; then rub into it two tablespoons of cold butter. Be sure that the butter is well worked in. Add milk enough to make a very soft paste.
  
• Roll out the paste about a quarter of an inch thick, using plenty of flour on the paste-board and rolling pin. Cut it into triangular pieces, each side about four inches long.
  
• Flour the sides and bottom of a biscuit tin, and place the pieces on it. Bake immediately in a quick oven from twenty to thirty minutes. When half done, brush over with milk.

NOTE: Some cooks prefer to bake them on a floured griddle, and cut them a round shape the size of a saucer, then scarred across to form four quarters.