Preheat the oven to 220ºC. Grease or flour a baking tray.
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the dates.
Add the milk and quickly mix with a round-bladed table knife to a soft dough. For light and tender scones the mixture should be quite soft and a little sticky. Scrape the dough onto the floured baking tray and flour the top.
Working quickly, pat the dough out to 2cm thickness and with a floured knife cut it into 12 even-sized pieces, then separate the scones to allow 2cm space between them. Brush the tops with milk and sprinkle with a mix of cinnamon and sugar if desired.
Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a wire rack to cool, wrapped in a clean tea towel to keep them soft.
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Used 4.5tsp baking powder. Much better taste. Hate the taste of baking powder.
Easy as!!
Oven temp too high.
Bitter as too much Baking powder
Had to bin whole batch! :(
Have always loved your recipes.l was brought up on them .Lent to love cooking .
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Love this recipe