Pear Ginger Beer and Sultana Scones

These are tasty fruit scones with a lovely ginger flavour.

Ingredients make 15

500 g self raising flour

5 g salt

1 tsp ground ginger

125 g shredded pear

100 g caster sugar

100 g dried sultanas

125 ml cream

125 ml ginger beer

Method

Preheat oven to 220ºC normal bake (200ºC fan forced). Place flour, salt, ground ginger in a bowl and combine. Place sugar, pear and currants in a bowl, mix with cream and ginger beer. Add this mix to the flour mixture and combine with a scraper or hands. Turn the dough out on a floured table, roll or pat the scone dough to a thickness of 25 mm. Cut scones out with a 5 cm scone cutter and place on a slightly floured tray with some distance in between. Bake in the oven on for approx. 12 minutes and allow cooling before dusting with icing sugar.

Note: You can also use freshly minced ginger instead of ground.