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This is my own scone recipe that I developed years ago, when I owned a Cafe, bakery and gourmet food store in Ridgewood, NJ. I regularly made 4,000 plus scones every week.
Ingredients
1, 1/2 lbs. self-rising flour (self-raising) (5, 1/2 cups). (I always use Aunt Jemima self-rising flour. It's now called Pearl Milling Company flour)
1 tsp salt
6 oz sugar (1 cup)
6 oz cold butter, cut small (1,1/2 sticks)
3 jumbo eggs beaten, plus 1 additional egg beaten with a little milk as a egg wash.
1/2 cup whole milk
12 oz raisins (about 1,1/2 cups)
Method
Set oven to 385F.
Using a stand mixer, add the salt and sugar and mix on lowest speed for 2 minutes.
Add butter and continue to mix on lowest speed for about 5- 7 minutes, or until mix resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Add the raisins and continue to mix for another minute or two.
Beat the 3 eggs with some of the milk. Keep some just in case you need it. you may not!
Turn mixer to second lowest speed and carefully add the egg/milk mixture, a little at a time, until dough is formed and comes away from the sides of the bowl. Add extra milk, if needed, but don't make dough too wet.
Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for 30 seconds- 1 minute.
Roll out to about 1 inch- 1,1/4-inch thickness and cut with a 2, 1/2-inch cutter.
Brush tops with egg wash
Bake in the center if the oven for about 20- 25 minutes until golden on top, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Recipe from Joan Saunders, DBE in NJ State Organizer