Lemon Scones with Cardamom
recipesfromapantry.com · 2018 · 6
Against 660 scone recipes
More salt than 85% of recipes and no egg, unlike 62%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 85% of recipes: 1.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
- Less sugar than 75% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 cups (225g) self-raising flour225 g
- 2 tbsp caster sugar≈ 25 g
- ½ tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 1/4 cup (55g) chilled unsalted butter55 g
- zest of 1 lemonn/a
- 1 tbsp lemon juice≈ 15 g
- 1/2 tsp ground cardamom≈ 1.3 g
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) milk (plus extra for brushing)≈ 122 g
flour 225 gbatter 446 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% · 30th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid54% · 55th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar11% · 24th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening5% · 69th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.3% · 87th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 18 to 20 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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