Cranberry Cornmeal Scones
Joy the Baker · joythebaker.com · 2016 · 8 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
Less leavening than 95% of recipes and less sugar than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less leavening than 95% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%, about half as much.
- Less sugar than 80% of recipes: 9.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, about half as much.
Ingredients (12)
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold, unsalted butter, grated on a box grater≈ 114 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 cup fine yellow cornmeal≈ 138 g
- 3 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 38 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 3/4 teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1 cup cold buttermilk≈ 244 g
- 3/4 cup canned or homemade cranberry sauce≈ 178 g
- 1 egg, lightly beaten (optional)≈ 50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar≈ 180 g
- 2 tablespoons orange juice, plus more if necessary≈ 30 g
- dash of vanilla extract≈ 0.4 g
flour 388 gbatter 1022 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.
- Butter29% · 42nd percentile · median 33%
- Liquid63% · 70th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar9.7% · 19th percentile · median 20%
- Egg13% · 44th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening1.8% · 4th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.2% · 75th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 12 to 14 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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