Cheese Scones
sugarspunrun.com · 2025 · 8 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More salt than 98% of recipes and less sugar than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 98% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 3 times as much.
- Less sugar than 85% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, under a third as much.
- More liquid than 80% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (9)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 Tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter (very cold)≈ 85 g
- ¾ cup cheddar cheese (shredded)≈ 178 g
- ¾ cup heavy cream≈ 179 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 Tablespoons heavy cream≈ 30 g
- ¼ cup cheddar cheese (shredded)≈ 59 g
flour 250 gbatter 724 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.
- Butter34% · 56th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid71% · 81st percentile · median 52%
- Sugar5% · 13th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening5.5% · 82nd percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt2.4% · 99th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 12 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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