Friday at school is scone day.
Two of our best bakers (and we have quite a few) get up early in the morning and bake a couple of batches each. Just before 9am, they carry them carefully into school in big Tuperware boxes, watched from windows all the while. Once securely in the staffroom, the cakes are then slathered with a generous helping of jam and cream and laid out ready for morning break.
The interval bell rings. Classroom doors burst open and today, it’s teachers rather than pupils who are first out the doors and charging through the halls. For a few short minutes it’s every educator for themselves. Manners are forgotten as everyone tries to get to the staffroom in time to claim a scone.
I’d like to claim I was more mannerly than the masses but the day I saw the chemistry teacher take not the last scone but the last two scones and then devour them both right in front of my face still brings a tear to my eye.
I love scone day.
Here at home, I sometimes make my own scones but they are the savoury kind for eating with big bowls of vegetable soup rather than the sweet variety. They haven’t caused any stampedes as of yet but they are pretty damned good. 🙂
Cheese Scones
(makes 8-10)
225g self raising flour (if you live somewhere that doesn’t have SR flour or are a bit sniffy about it see this page for flour/baking powder equivalents)
1 tspn baking powder
Pinch of pepper
40g salted butter, cut into cubes
50g mature cheddar (plus a little extra), grated
125ml milk
1 tspn English mustard
- Sift the flour, baking powder and pepper into a bowl.
- Add the butter and use your fingertips to rub it into the flour until a breadcrumb like texture is achieved.
- Stir through the cheese.
- Mix the mustard and milk together well. Add little by little to the bowl and stir with a spoon until a dough is formed. It shouldn’t be too sticky.
- Roll out until 2cm thick. Use a pastry cutter to cut out rounds of dough and place on a baking tray. Brush with a little egg or milk and sprinkle over some more cheese.
- Bake in a 200 oC oven (I have a fan oven – increase the heat a bit for non-fan) for 15 minutes.
- Cool slightly before eating.
A Wee Bit of Cooking 
I want to work somewhere that there is scone day – I remember a colleague bringing in fresh scones with jam and cream in a previous workplace and luckily there were enough or there would have been a stampede – I would stampede for yours Wendy – love savoury scones and soup
i’d run for one of these!
Yum!!
they look brilliant, perhaps even better than my cheese and garlic scones :D. IT;s also refreshing to see them called scones and not biscuits on Word press 😀
What a giggle the image of teachers charging down the hallways brings. I love cheese scones with homemade soup. Yum!
Ah, yes…a perfect illustration of why chemistry (and teachers thereof) is Eeeevil…and further proof of your sweetness; I’d be plotting revenge, not shedding a tear 😉
Yummy scones…haven’t made any in a coon’s age…thanks for the idea! 😀
Great post! they look yummy. Hope they are on the menu at the end of the month when we visit 🙂
I’m going to eat something right now. They look so goooood 😀 xxx
in an old school where i worked we had ‘fat friday’-like the sound of a scone day! Cheese scones are now bookmarked!
Scone Day, what a great idea! Every workplace should have one…..we would all be happier! I have always loved plain,my husband loves cinnamon, but I think we both would love your cheese scone recipe! Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this recipe. I made them today – subbing extra black pepper in lieu of English mustard (must put on grocery list!). They were superb!
I love savory scones! I have a similar recipe but I use a combination of cheddar and aged parmesan, chopped jalapeno (from a jar), and a bit of cayenne pepper. Never thought to add mustard. I’ll try your version next time!
i love scones!! cream tea with whipped cream (and not the nasty clotted cream stuff) – sigh… ❤ i've never eaten a savoury scone though, these look fab.
and your scone-devouring colleague, seriously, no manners at all! 🙂
What a nice ‘tradition’ to have at work. I wish I could get our staff team to do something like that. I love cheese scones. Yours look perfect.
mmm tasty stuff! Might treat the mrs!
What a great idea to make cheese scones…YUM.