The Look Pretty Tasty

Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredient Availability: 5/5

Difficulty: 2/5

I’ve never had a scone before. To me, they look a lot like biscuits. After a little research, I learned that while the ingredients are mostly the same between the two, the ratios cause biscuits to be more flaky and fluffy, while scones are more dense and crumbly. I’ll see if I can actually tell the difference with this recipe from King Arthur’s Baker’s Companion.

Key Ingredients and Omissions:

All the ingredients in this recipe are common and should be easy to find. I would just recommend using as good a quality cheese and butter as you can find and afford. I think these flavors are probably the most important in this recipe.

Tools:

Box Grater
Bowls

Cooking Review:

Prep: 13 minutes

The prep for this recipe included chopping the scallions, shredding the cheese, and cutting the butter into smaller pieces. I recommend using the weight measurement when shredding the cheese. As you can see, the volume measurement will be a good amount less than what the recipe asks for in mass.

Dry Ingredients: 9 minutes

It took me about 9 minutes to get all the dry ingredients measured or weighed out and mixed together. The recipe says to rub the butter into the flour, so I just pressed the pieces between my fingers until coated in flour and broken up into smaller pieces.

Making the Dough: 8 minutes

I mixed together my wet ingredients and poured them into the bowl with the dry ingredients along with the cheese and scallions. The dough was mixed with a fork until it just came together before being emptied out onto a floured counter.

Forming Scones: 9 minutes

Once on the work surface, I had to do a little kneading to get all the dry parts to hydrate and bring the dough together into one mass. Then, I patted the dough into a rectangle and cut it into 12 triangles. I cut the dough in half length wise, then made three squares on each half. Finally, I cut those squares in half diagonally and transferred them to a greased baking sheet.

Baking: 30 minutes

The recipe calls for the scones to bake the scones for 20 minutes, but I let mine go for another 10 minutes to get some more color on them.

Analysis:

The texture of these scones is very nice. I like how the exterior is nice and crispy with a very soft interior. I guess they are more dense and less flaky than the typical biscuit. Flavor wise, I can’t tell much of a difference between this scone and a biscuit. If someone gave this to me, I would just think it’s a biscuit cut into a triangle. The cheese flavor is very faint and I think the scallions provide more consistent flavor to the scones. This isn’t to say that these are bad. They’re just underwhelming. I definitely expected there to be more cheesy oniony flavor, but it mostly just tastes like a pretty good biscuit. I’m going to give this recipe a 7/10. If you just want a biscuit or scone with a little extra to it, I guess this isn’t a bad choice. Personally, I would just go with my favorite biscuit recipe.

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