Strawberry Shortcake Scones
Tricia · savingdessert.com · 2019 · 8 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more butter than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, about twice as much.
- More butter than 80% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
- Less leavening than 79% of recipes: 3.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 cup cold whole milk≈ 244 g
- ¼ cup granulated sugar≈ 50 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 12 g
- 12 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (divided)≈ 170 g
- 4 cups fresh strawberries (sliced)≈ 600 g
- ½ cup granulated sugar≈ 100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Turbinado (or coarse sugar for topping)n/a
- 1 cup cold whipping cream≈ 238 g
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar≈ 15 g
flour 375 gbatter 1555 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.
- Butter45% · 87th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid65% · 75th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar40% · 93rd percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening3.1% · 20th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.1% · 63rd percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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