Recipe: Tasty Black Tea Hot Biscuit (Scone)

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Black Tea Hot Biscuit (Scone). Move the mixture to a large mixing bowl. Pour the milk into the dry mixture and use a rubber spatula to mix until half mixed (Be careful not to mix too much). Also, the batter may appear a bit runny.

British Breakfast, a traditional black tea, with a spot of milk, is a hearty complement to the sweet flavors in this scone.

For stronger flavour, add more tea.

Brewing for longer may increase the strength of the tea, but will likely also cause bitterness.

You can cook Black Tea Hot Biscuit (Scone) using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Black Tea Hot Biscuit (Scone)

1. You need of INGREDIENTS for 6 Hot Biscuits.

2. You need 100 g of Flour.

3. It’s 3 g of Baking Powder.

4. Prepare 25 g of Sugar.

5. You need 35 g of Butter (Salted).

6. It’s 50 g of Milk (or cream).

7. Prepare of Tea leaves 4g (About to 2 tea bags).

Most tea biscuit recipes produced buttermilk biscuits, or biscuits closer to what you'd get out of a Pillsbury can.

I wanted a slightly sweet, starchy yet moist, biscuit.

Or was it really just an English scone?

I found one raisin tea biscuit recipe that seemed to be in the ballpark of what I was looking for, and I made a few changes.

Black Tea Hot Biscuit (Scone) instructions

1. Operation Time / 20 min Oven Temperature / 400 F Baking Time / 25 min.

2. Preheat oven to 400F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper..

3. Prepare a medium mixing bowl and a stick mixer with blade inserts..

4. Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixing bowl. Add the sugar and tea leaves..

5. Cut the butter into small squares and add to the bowl..

6. Using the stick mixer, mix to a texture of coarse crumbs (if you dont have a machine, you can use your fingertips)..

7. Move the mixture to a large mixing bowl. Pour the milk into the dry mixture and use a rubber spatula to mix until half mixed (Be careful not to mix too much)..

8. Divide the dough into 6 portions..

9. Place on prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 25 minutes or until the tops are lightly browned. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack..

Feel free to slightly decrease, but keep in mind that the scone flavor and texture will slightly change.

So off I went to create a scone/biscuit for my shortcake.

These lemon scones turned out so well on their own that I am posting the recipe separately as a scone.

They are a very light, biscuit-like, not very sweet scone with a wonderful hint of lemon.

These and a hot cup of sweet black tea are a match made in heaven, so I am calling them tea scones.