Grammy's Old Fashioned Scones

2 cups flour
1 T baking powder
2 T sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
6 T butter
1/2 C buttermilk or half & half
1 lightly beaten egg

Mix together all the dry ingredients.  Then use a pastry cutter or two knives to cut in 6 tabelspoons of butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.  Make a well in the center of your dough and pour in the buttermilk OR half and half.  Stir until the dough clings together and is a bit sticky.  (Don't stir to much.  You don't want the scones to be tough.)

Now put the dough on a floured surface and flatten it into a circle that's 1 1/2 inches thick and between six and eight inches across.  Working quickly, cut the dough into triangles like pieces of a pie or use a large round biscuit cutter to cut it into circles.

Put your triangles or circles on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Make sure the sides of the scones don't touch eachother.  Then brush some of the lightly beaten egg on top so that your scones will be a shiny beautiful brown.  Serve your scones warm with some special creams or your favorite preserves and jams.

~VLS