Date Scones
theviewfromgreatisland.com · 2024 · 12 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
No butter, unlike 95% of recipes and more liquid than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No butter at all, where 95% of recipes use some (most of those 24 to 45% of the flour weight).
- More liquid than 96% of recipes: 97% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- More salt than 92% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about twice as much.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 3 cups all purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 Tbsp baking powder≈ 14 g
- 1 tsp salt≈ 6 g
- 1/3 cup white sugar≈ 67 g
- 1 Tbsp vanilla bean paste*≈ 13 g
- 1 1/3 cups plus 3 tablespoons heavy cream (and a bit more for brushing tops of scones)≈ 362 g
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pitted dates≈ 356 g
flour 375 gbatter 1192 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.
- Butter0% · 2nd percentile · median 33%
- Liquid97% · 97th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar18% · 44th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening3.7% · 30th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.6% · 94th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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