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Traditional Irish Scones

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Learn how to make delicious Traditional Irish Scones, from a professional Irish chef!
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Last updated on July 22, 2020

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Traditional Irish Scones- These soft and crumbly scone recipe will be the best you ever find! I promise you, I have been using it for years.

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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 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!

Plus, don’t miss my mum’s Traditional Irish Soda Bread recipe, which is a lovely quick bread that you can make in no time!

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Traditional Irish Scones

4.53 from 304 votes
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Learn how to make delicious Traditional Irish Scones, from a professional Irish chef!
Author: Avoca Hand Weavers Cook Book
Servings: 12
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 55 mins
Learn how to make delicious Traditional Irish Scones, from a professional Irish chef!
Author: Avoca Hand Weavers Cook Book
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
  • 1/2 cup (2 ½ oz/71g) 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.

 

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Jennifer
Jennifer
9 months ago

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!🤗

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chandra p
chandra p
4 years ago

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 »

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Kristen
Kristen
10 months ago

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!!

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Pam
Pam
10 months ago

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❤️

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Jen
Jen
4 months ago

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.

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Shannon Breen Bodenstein
8 months ago

Delicious! I didn’t have cream on hand and my mother recommended evaporated milk. I used one cup of that and they were great.

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Bass fiddler
Bass fiddler
1 year ago

This made my sunday a bit more yummy ! Photos on ig : bass_fiddler_jeremy

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Kim
Kim
1 day ago

Amazing 🤩 thank you! 🙌

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Veronica
Veronica
10 days ago

Hi Gemma,
Thank you for all the yummy recipes. I am a little confused, about the conversions for butter in the recipe, for half a cup, I think it should be around 113.4gram or 4 oz but in your ingredients, it stated 2.5oz or 71gram. Which one should I follow, in cup or oz/gram? I would like to try baking these yummy looking scones.

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Donna
Donna
17 days ago

Hi Gemma Yum, Yum Yummy! I have made this recipe 3x now. The first time I followed your recipe exactly and the scones were very authentic to Ireland for sure! The 2nd time I made them, I had to use up some buttermilk so I replaced the whole milk with that and also kept the cream. They were very good as well but the dough was a bit harder to work with. I made raisin scones the first two times and on the third time I used dried cranberries. All were yummy and flew out of the box very quickly!… Read more »

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