Hi all!
I’m looking for a good recipe for a British-style scone. I find typical American scones dry, dense and crumbly. But British scones are creamy, tender and light.
Any good recipes?
No help at all?
Maybe tomorrow!
Maybe when the UK wakes up, and a new year begins!
Yup! I was hoping some of our local cooking mavens might a recipe, but I’m willing to wait for the UK folks.
Ours are all drinking; theirs are all sleeping.
I came across this a while ago. I’m not a baker so I haven’t made them, but the reports I’ve read are that her scones are marvelous.
One video: Jackie's Scones - YouTube
One blog with quantities: humanbeans.net
Regardless of how you make them, please, please, please pronounce them as scone (to rhyme with gone) instead of scone (to rhyme with stone).
Thank you.
I do. Trust me, I do.
The best scones are tattie scones.
I don’t know those…
You do now. Wonderful, delicious treats with butter.
Those sound simply amazing. Yum.
I’m telling you, tattie scones are ambrosia man.
I am not British, but I have eaten scones all over the UK. I have used this recipe and liked it.
BTW, I have always heard scone to rhyme with stone. Am I being whooshed or are you Canadians just weird?
It’s a Scottish dish and it rhymes with “gone.” Listen to this guy. It kills me when I hear it pronounced to rhyme with stone. Bloody Americans!
Basic scone recipe:
8 oz self-raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
3 tbsp skim milk powder (optional)
4 tsp butter
1 cup milk
Heat oven to 425. Grease a baking tray.
Sift together dry ingredients.
Lightly rub butter into flour. Mix to a soft dough with milk. The less the dough is handled, the lighter the scones will be.
Flatten the dough out to about 1/2", using the heel of your hand. Cut out circles.
Place scones touching each other on tray, glaze as desired. Bake 8-10 min.
Hey, hey, hey!
I do it right!
Anyway what passes for scones here don’t resemble the marvelousness that are scones from accord the sea. It’s ok if they’re called by a different name! 
You can’t solely blame the Americans for that, though.
Scone as one and scone as stone exist in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, too. Both versions in all places. And everyone insists their way is the right way and the other lot are saying it wrong.
As for a recipe? Delia Smith knows all, so if it was me, I’d look at her recipe online as a starting point.
Nah. It’s “scone” to rhyme with “stone.” I don’t speak Scottish English. If I said “scone” to rhyme with “gone” in my dialect, I’d come off as a pretentious douche or people would have no idea what I’m talking about. (And I lived in Scotland for a few months and worked in a kitchen where scones were part of the daily morning tea/elevenses for us kitchen staff, so I am familiar with the “correct” pronunciation.)
Well, I’m off to bake later. I’m making a nice tea for later today and I wanted good, soft, creamy scones. I’ll report back, but I’ll look at any new recipes!