Sunday Scones
Hamsterjam · nigella.com · Serves: 8
Against 660 scone recipes
Less butter than 94% of recipes and more leavening than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 94% of recipes: 8.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%, under a third as much.
- More leavening than 98% of recipes: 8.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%.
- More liquid than 88% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- Less sugar than 88% of recipes: 3.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, under a third as much.
Ingredients (7)
- 2 cups cake flour≈ 228 g
- 4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 18 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 2 teaspoons sugar≈ 8 g
- 4 teaspoons coarsely grated butter (ice-cold)≈ 19 g
- 1 egg (mix with milk)≈ 50 g
- ¾ cup milk (leave a tiny bit behind to use for brushing on top)≈ 183 g
flour 228 gbatter 510 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.
- Butter8.2% · 6th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid80% · 89th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar3.7% · 11th percentile · median 20%
- Egg22% · 85th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening8.1% · 99th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.3% · 87th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 475°F / 245°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 10 to 12 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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