Grandma’s Sweet White Scones

Name: Grandma’s Sweet White Scones
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: whipped cream or butter; pinch of salt; 3 heaped teaspoons (60 g) baking powder; 50 g caster sugar; 900 g plain flour; egg wash; 450 ml full-fat milk (approx.); 3 eggs; 175 g butter, cut into small cubes and chilled; whipped cream or butter; homemade jam; 75 g crunchy Demerara sugar or coarse granulated sugar (approx.), for the tops of the scones; 75 g crunchy Demerara sugar or coarse granulated sugar (approx.), for the tops of the scones

Preparation info

Makes
18–20
Scones Using a 7.5 cm Cutter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

About

The trick to these sweet white scones is to make sure that the butter is really chilled so that it breaks and crumbles into the flour to give the scones their extra-special light texture.

Ingredients

900 g plain flour
50 g caster sugar
3 h

Europe
Ireland
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Preheat the oven to 250°C/480°F/gas mark 9.

Sieve all the dry ingredients together into a large, wide bowl. Toss the chilled butter cubes in the flour and rub them in by hand until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs.

Make a well in the centre. Whisk the eggs with