Simple Scones
King Arthur Test Kitchen · kingarthurbaking.com · 8 large scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More egg than 93% of recipes and more salt than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 93% of recipes: 31% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 16%, about twice as much.
- More salt than 89% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 3/4 cups (326g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour or King Arthur Pastry Flour Blend326 g
- 1/3 cup (67g) granulated sugar67 g
- 3/4 teaspoon table salt≈ 4.5 g
- 1 tablespoon (12g) baking powder12 g
- 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, cold113 g
- 1 cup to 2 cups (113g to 227g) chopped dried fruit, chocolate or other flavored chips, nuts, or a combination113 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract, or flavoring of your choice≈ 8 g
- 3/4 cup (170g) half-and-half or milk170 g
- 2 teaspoons milk, optional≈ 10 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- coarse sparkling sugar or cinnamon sugar, optionaln/a
flour 326 gbatter 924 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.
- Butter35% · 59th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid55% · 58th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar21% · 55th percentile · median 20%
- Egg31% · 93rd percentile · median 16%
- Leavening3.7% · 30th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.4% · 90th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 25 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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