3 cups flour2 tbs baking powder
½ cup sugar
½ tsp salt
¾ cup butter
¾ cup milk
1/3 cup sour cream
¾ cup currants
1 egg
2 tbs butter
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Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and 3/4 cup butter. (I put the above in a food processor with a dough blade and beat the snot out of it until it was uniform, watched the butter magically disappear)
Mix the milk and sour cream together, and then add it to the dry ingredients. Stir it in just until everything is uniform (don’t overdo it, and not that it will be very sticky)
Add the currants to the above and fold just until they are mixed in
Spread it out onto a buttered or greased cookie sheet, about 1” thick
Melt the 2 tbs butter (but don’t get it too hot), then add the egg and mix it up. Brush it over top of the dough
Bake at 400 degrees for approximately 15 minutes.