🥘 Ham and cheese scones

Late breakfast, lunch or tea time, these savoury scones are ideal to serve anytime. They freeze well and just need heating in a warm oven.

Ingredients

• 100g butter, plus extra for greasing
• 10 rashers of streaky bacon
• 275g self raising flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 150ml milk
• 50ml vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• handful of snipped chives
• 150g grated cheddar

Step by step

1. Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and grease a 12 hole muffin tin.
2. Fry the bacon over a medium heat until golden. Let it cool and chop into chunks, set aside.
3. Combine the flour, baking powder and 1 tsp sea salt in a bowl. Mix the butter the butter into the flour using you fingers and keep mixing until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
4. In a separate small bowl, whisk together the milk, oil and egg. Tip it into the dry mixture and mix gently until the flour mixture is mostly moistened. Some lumps will remain.
5. Stir in the bacon, chives and cheese and then spoon into the muffin tin.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.

Serve the scones warm with an extra pinch of sea salt on top. Use smoked streak bacon or lardons if you prefer.