Lemon Blueberry Scones
africanbites.com · 2021 · 8
Against 660 scone recipes
More salt than 96% of recipes and more liquid than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More liquid than 84% of recipes: 76% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (12)
- 2½ cups (312.5 g) all-purpose flour313 g
- ¼ cup (50 g) granulated sugar50 g
- 1 tablespoons (14.38 g) baking powder14 g
- 1 teaspoon (6 g) salt6 g
- 8 tablespoons (113.4 g) unsalted butter (cold and cut into chunks)113 g
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest≈ 6 g
- 1 cup fresh blueberries≈ 148 g
- 1 cup heavy cream (plus more for brushing the scones)≈ 238 g
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar (sifted)≈ 200 g
- 2-3 tablespoons (30-45 ml) lemon juice≈ 37 g
- Zest of 1 lemonn/a
flour 313 gbatter 893 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 660 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter36% · 64th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid76% · 85th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar16% · 39th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening4.6% · 57th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.9% · 96th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 to 20 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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