Why did my scones come out hard?

Question

ingredients: 1 1/4cup self raising flour, 1/2 c milk, 25g butter (melted into milk), pinch salt, 30g cheese.
The dough was dry and flaky so I added more milk, then it was wetter and sticky. Kneaded it in flour and the bough was more breadlike - hard.
Cooked it for 30mins. they came out crusty and hard, didnt rise much.
I'm a guy n dont know much bout cooking!

Answer 1

Don't melt the butter, just cut it into the dough with a pastry brush. This will help them rise when the steam from the melting butter puffs up the dough from the inside, much like puff pastry. Also don't add extra ingredients, this ways down the rising of the dough. The recipe you have should also include a leavening agent, like baking soda. Try looking for a better recipe, foodnetwork.com is good. Good luck.

Answer 2

You probably added too much milk. the dough should be slightly flaky. My mom made scones my whole life and she is a very good cook in general scones are kind of like a crusty biscuit. They are supposed to be hard too a point. Next time follow the recipe and see how that comes out without adding things. Then if you really need to adjust it try again.

Answer 3

Scones need Cold Butter cut into the flour and also if you over knead your dough you will get hard scones =(

Here is a site that can give you tons of do's and don't when baking and also recipes for Scones =)

Hope it helps .. just keep at it you will master them soon.

Answer 4

I don't know what scones are but if your talking about poop then you need to drink more water