Chocolate chip scones - country cooking

4 scones

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Unsifted, self-rising, all-purpose flour (see Note)
3 tablespoons Sugar
½ cup Vegetable shortening
½ cup Milk
1 large Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ cup Semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Heat oven to 425'F. Grease baking sheet. In large bowl, combine flour and sugar. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut the shortening in until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

2. In small bowl, beat together milk, egg, and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients along with chocolate chips; mix lightly with fork until mixture clings together and forms a soft dough.

3. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and knead gently 5 or 6 times. With lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough into a 7-inch round. Cut into 4 wedges.

4. Place scones, 1 inch apart, on greased baking sheet. Pierce tops with tines of fork.

5. Bake scones 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Note: If self-rising flour is unavailable, you may substitute 2 C unsifted all purpose flour, 2 t baking powder, and ½ t salt.

Country Cooking/Summer/94 Scanned & fixed by Di and Gary

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