Buttermilk Lemon Thyme and Cheese Scones

Buttermilk is the favourite choice of liquid in scones and delivers wonderful flavours together with cheese and lemon thyme in these savoury scones.

Ingredients make 14

500 g self raising flour

10 g salt

90 g unsalted butter

150 g shredded cheddar cheese

5 g chopped lemon thyme

200 ml cultured buttermilk

Method

Preheat oven to 200ºC fan forced (220ºC normal bake).Combine flour and salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and use your hands to rub the butter into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs. Place buttermilk, cheese and lemon thyme in another bowl and combine. Add liquid mix to dry mix and combined to dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and pat the dough into a 3 cm thickness. Cut out the scones with a 5cm scone cutter and transfer to a lightly floured tray. Space approx. a centimetre apart and bake for approx 12 min. until golden brown on top and cooked through.

Note: Try other cheese such as parmesan and gruyere or a mixture.