Scones from The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook by Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Ingredients

• a little milk
• 30 G/ 1 oz caster sugar
• 225 g/ 8 oz self-raising flour, plus more for dusting
• 30 g/ 1 oz frozen butter, cut into dice, plus more for greasing
• pinch of salt
• 1 egg, beaten
• about 140—150 ml/ 4½ fl oz-¼ pt cold milk