I-Love-You Scones Recipe: 59 Photos
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FAQ
7 Baking Tips for Making Better Scones
- For a better rise, use cold butter — or even frozen butter. ...
- When it comes to mixing, don't overdo it; mix until the dough just comes together. ...
- Use pastry flour for the lightest scones. ...
- Once you've shaped your scones, chill them before baking, Youngman says.
What's the Main Difference? The biscuit and scone share British heritage, quick bread status, and the basic foundation of flour, fat, and liquid. But as they evolved to what they are today, scone recipes use eggs, and biscuit recipes do not.
It can have layers of course, but they should err on the side of crumbly. A scone is slightly dryer than a biscuit and yet, when done well, not dry at all. Scones are intended to be consumed with a hot beverage of your choice after all. And clotted cream, or butter, or jam.
A Food Standards Agency (FSA) report has found that the average scone contains 408 calories, with the best – sorry, most fattening – clocking up a remarkable 756 calories and 39.2g of sugar. Add jam and cream to the largest scone tested, and you are talking more than 900 calories.
Don't overwork the dough!. When the wet and dry ingredients have been mixed, try to not overwork the dough, it makes the scones very tough and quite dry. Even if the dough looks crumbly, that's a good thing! It allows for those air pockets to help increase the fluffiness.