Big fluffy brown butter scones
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2026 · 6
Against 660 scone recipes
More leavening than 91% of recipes and no salt, unlike 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More leavening than 91% of recipes: 6.3% 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).
- More liquid than 85% of recipes: 77% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 43% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
Ingredients (10)
- 150g unsalted butter cut into cubes150 g
- 350g self-raising flour plus extra for dusting350 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 75g golden caster sugar plus extra for sprinkling75 g
- 150g natural yogurt (not reduced-fat or low-fat)150 g
- 100ml whole milk plus 1 tbsp≈ 118 g
- 2 tsp lemon juice or white wine vinegar≈ 10 g
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 6 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- clotted cream and jam to serven/a
flour 350 gbatter 914 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.
- Butter43% · 75th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid77% · 86th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar21% · 57th percentile · median 20%
- Egg14% · 48th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening6.3% · 93rd percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0% · 7th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 5 to 7 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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