Mandys cheesy scones/biscuits. The biscuit dough is nice and buttery, the apples are lightly sweet and tart, the cheddar is, well, cheesey, and the sage is nice and earthy. I didn't skimp on any of the ingredients, and the end result is cozy, rich, and bursting with fall flavors. I grew up eating my mother's. She was the Cheesy Scones Bomb. I used to grate the cheese for her - thick, yellow shavings of mature cheddar cheese - lovingly grated into a bowl, minus a few fingerfuls that ended up in my mouth.

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. The biscuits should spring back gently when touched in the center. These tasty biscuits have a savory Cheddar and onion flavor. You can have Mandys cheesy scones/biscuits using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mandys cheesy scones/biscuits

Prepare 350 grams of self raising flour.
It's 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
You need 85 grams of cold cubed butter.
Prepare 175 ml of milk.
You need 100 grams of grated cheddar cheese.
It's 1 tsp of salt.
Prepare 1 of egg beaten to glaze.
It's as needed of flour to roll dough on.

Perfect with a bowl of chili or hearty soup in the winter or a main dish salad in the summer. Lu Ann, it is interesting how two things with nearly identical ingredients can be so different. I don't really knead either my biscuits or my scones, but if you would call the couple of "turns" I do kneading, I would say I knead the scone dough more than the biscuit dough. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Mandys cheesy scones/biscuits instructions

Heat oven to 200C/400F.
Place flour, baking powder, salt and butter in a mixing bowl and rub together with your fingers until it resembles sand.
Add cheese mix well..
Create a well in flour and add milk,bring the mix together into a dough add more milk if needed..
On a clean work surface dust with flour add dough and roll out to 4cm thick. Using a 5 cm cookie cutter cut out scones until all the dough is used up, place on a baking sheet and glaze with beaten egg..
Bake for 10 minutes on the middle shelf of the oven. Remove and allow to cool slightly then dive in..

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Work the butter into the flour into pea-sized pieces some larger pieces are okay. Storing and freezing cheddar drop biscuits. To store: Leftover cheddar biscuits should be stored in a sealable container. Scones do not have to be sweet to be easy and delicious.