Simply Scones

 I have no picture of the scones my family love so because a. they never last long enough to be photographed and b. they aren't all that pretty.  But they will make you feel beautiful. Like a flower.
And they aren't my recipe. They are the date-nut scones in a little book called Simply Scones written by 2 authors whose names are on the book which is in the other room. Fortunately it's easy to find on Amazon.
 The key is the chilled butter and the pastry cutter. I always skip the egg white glaze and, quite honestly, for this one you can also ignore the "unsalted" descriptor for the butter - you could add less salt ... or not. In a blind taste test I'd never know... unless

you make the cream scones. Then you do need to watch the total salt closely.

 And know mater which scones you make never worry about how they look because over handling scones (or biscuits) is a SIN.