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Hi Bold Bakers!
Scones were an essential part of my life growing up in Ireland. Anytime you’d drop by a friend or family member’s house, you’d have a hot cup of tea and freshly baked scones ready for you. When I started baking, this was one of my first recipes and it’s an essential one for any Bold Baker. I’ll show you all of my best tips and tricks to making perfect buttery scones every time. And don’t forget the jam and cream to make them extra Big & Bold!
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Traditional Irish Scones
Learn how to make delicious Traditional Irish Scones, from a professional Irish chef!
Servings: 12
Learn how to make delicious Traditional Irish Scones, from a professional Irish chef!
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 3 ½ cups (16oz/497g) all purpose flour
- 5 teaspoon baking powder, leveled
- 1 generous pinch Of salt
- ¼ cup (2 oz/60g) sugar
- 1/4 cup (2 ½ oz/71g) generous 1/4 cup,cold, cubed, salted butter cold
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup (2floz/57ml) double cream
- 3/4 cup (6floz/170ml) whole milk
- milk to glaze
Instructions
- In a large bowl mix the dry ingredients together
- Rub in the cold butter with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- If adding dried fruit eg. Raisins, berries, citrus rind, chocolate chips add them now before you add liquid
- Mix your egg with the milk and cream and pour into your flour mix (if you don’t have cream you can use only milk)
- With an open hand mix loosely your scone mix until your dough forms. The bowl should be clean from the dough
- Turn your dough onto a floured work surface
- Knead lightly to give your dough a smooth surface
- Pat your dough down with your hand until around 1 inches thick
- With a scone cutter cut out your lovely little scones. You will have around 12
- Put on a baking tray, glaze the tops of your scones with some milk to give them a golden top when baked
- Bake at 350oF (18OoC) for 35 minutes.
- Enjoy with Irish butter, jam and freshly whipped cream. Scones are best eaten the day they are baked but the next day you can pop them back in the oven to freshen them up again.
Hi Gemma,
Craving these scones, which I’ve made before and loved. Only issue is, I do not have an heavy cream. I do however have milk,greek yogurt,coconut flour&coconut oil,cream cheese.
Any ideas on what I can use?
Thank you!????
Delicious! I didn’t have cream on hand and my mother recommended evaporated milk. I used one cup of that and they were great.
The YouTube video has 125g butter in the written recipe section but this webpage has only 71g butter?
I couldn’t even get the dough to form. This recipe called for half as much liquid as is needed. Awful. I’ve made scones dozens of times and had to throw this dough out to start anew.
Thank you so much for this recipe!
I’m from Northern Ireland and moved to the US 3 years ago. After I had my daughter last year I really wanted her to have some of the food I grew up with. Other sites and recipes were mostly american or english and just not what I grew up eating. My mum sent me to your site when I asked her for some recipes and I’m so glad she did! Thank you for what you do.
Gemma: You did it again. I grew up in Guyana (formerly British Guiana). The first thing we baked in high school cooking class was cheese scones. For the last forty yrs, I’ve lived in Canada and the USA. I long for scones, I get cravings for scones; then two days ago, I found your recipe. I used an eight grain atta from the Indian grocery store, substituted Indian yogurt for the cream and created a spectacular scone with your recipe. Thank you. I make your no knead brioche regularly, I posted a comment about half whole wheat in the recipe.… Read more »
I’ve never left a comment but as I was looking up this recipe yet again, I thought I should. This recipe is a family favorite! I found it 5 years ago when I was looking for a new tradition to start on St Patrick’s day. It has become the center of our “ traditional Irish breakfast” as well as the most requested breakfast item in our household. Thank you for sharing your awesome recipes with us!!
I just made these scones for the first time and I was not disappointed.
They are absolutely wonderful and so simple to make. My dad would have loved them❤️
I made these with my girls scout troop today to earn a baking badge. The girls loved it and were easy to make.
I’ve been making these scones for the past 3 years since we traveled to Ireland. They are delicious and everyone loves them. One thing I just realized though is that I’ve been using a whole stick of butter (1/2 cup). Always Kerry Gold. I like them so much I have no plans on cutting back to a 1/4 cups. Very simple to make and they freeze really well making them last!! Thank you!!