Beef stew with cheese scone dumplings
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2023 · 4
Against 660 scone recipes
No sugar, unlike 91% of recipes and more leavening than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No sugar at all, where 91% of recipes use some (most of those 14 to 30% of the flour weight).
- More leavening than 96% of recipes: 7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%.
- No salt at all, where 86% of recipes use some (most of those 0.6 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- Less liquid than 80% of recipes: 39% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 batch of beef stew (see recipe in 'Goes well with'))n/a
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard≈ 15 g
- 225g self-raising flour plus extra for dusting225 g
- pinch of cayenne pepper≈ 0.4 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 75g cold unsalted butter cut into cubes75 g
- 100g mature cheddar grated, plus extra for the topping100 g
- small bunch of parsley finely choppedn/a
- 85ml milk≈ 88 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- cooked green veg to serven/a
flour 225 gbatter 508 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Butter33% · 51st percentile · median 33%
- Liquid39% · 19th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar0% · 4th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening7% · 97th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0% · 7th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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