Courgette, feta & thyme scones
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2025 · 8
Against 660 scone recipes
Less liquid than 93% of recipes and no sugar, unlike 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 93% of recipes: 28% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%, about half as much.
- No sugar at all, where 91% of recipes use some (most of those 14 to 30% of the flour weight).
- No salt at all, where 86% of recipes use some (most of those 0.6 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- More leavening than 89% of recipes: 5.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 medium courgette (approx 120g), coarsely grated120 g
- 250g self-raising flour plus extra for dusting250 g
- ½ tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
- 60g cold butter cut into cubes60 g
- 100g feta crumbled100 g
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves (or 1 tsp dried)≈ 15 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 4-5 tbsp milk plus extra for brushing≈ 69 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- salted butter and chutney, to serven/a
flour 250 gbatter 666 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.
- Butter24% · 27th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid28% · 6th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar0% · 4th percentile · median 20%
- Egg20% · 71st percentile · median 16%
- Leavening5.9% · 90th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0% · 7th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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