Lemon Poppy Seed Scones
sugarspunrun.com · 2020 · 8 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More butter than 80% of recipes and less leavening than 92%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 80% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
- Less leavening than 92% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%, about half as much.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (13)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar≈ 67 g
- 1 ¼ teaspoon baking powder≈ 6 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- ½ cup very cold unsalted butter (I like to place my butter in the freezer 15 minutes before beginning to ensure it is cold )≈ 114 g
- 1 Tablespoon poppy seeds≈ 15 g
- 1 ½ Tablespoons fresh lemon zest¹≈ 9 g
- ½ cup heavy cream≈ 119 g
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 1.1 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 ¼ cups powdered sugar≈ 150 g
- 1 ½ Tablespoons lemon juice≈ 22 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons water≈ 7 g
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract.≈ 1.1 g
flour 250 gbatter 581 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%
- Liquid48% · 34th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar27% · 70th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening2.3% · 7th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0.6% · 37th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 to 17 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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