Traditional Irish Scones
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Join me and fellow Irish YouTuber, Donal Skehan, for TWO traditional Irish recipes we know you’ll love as part of a big St. Patrick’s Day Collaboration. Over on his channel, Donal is making a gorgeous Apple Crumble. And by popular demand, I’m making my traditional Irish Scones. So let’s get baking for Paddy’s Day!
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!
- 3 ½ cups (1 lb/ 16oz ) Flour (all purpose/plain)
- 5 level tsp Baking powder
- 1 Generous pinch Of salt
- ¼ cup (2 oz/60g) white sugar
- 1 stick (4 oz/ 125g) cold salted Butter,
- 1 Whole egg
- 2 oz Double cream
- 7 oz whole milk
- Milk to glaze
- 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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Hi Gemma ..
Didn’t know how to post the pic of the awesome scones I baked following your awesome foolproof recipe…
next time Lynn scroll down to the bottom of the page and below the recipe is written ‘Submit your photos’. Click that and it’s pretty easy from there 🙂
Gemma.
Gemma, you are a fab baker!!! All your recipes are foolproof!!!
Tried the Traditional Irish Scones!!! Which I knew would undoubtedly come out perfect!!!
Thanks a ton!!!
I’m delighted to hear that Lynn!!!
Hi Gemma !!
I’m a student currently studying in Ireland and I discovered your YouTube channel about a year ago, I’ve made lots of yummy treats and all my cooking adventures have been successful so far ! Thank you so much ! I am planning to make these scones over the weekend and I was wondering, what would be the difference between scones that use buttermilk and scones that do not ? Hope you have a lovely day !
Hi there Vaish,
Hope we are being kind to you in Ireland and that you get on well with your studies.
Usually when you use buttermilk in a recipe you use bicarbonate of soda as the leavening/raising agent. This is to do with the acid alkaline balance in the recipe, and it is the science of baking.
Baking powder already has this balance, it is a combination of bicarbonate of soda, and citric acid. So, use one or the other, the result will be the same really,
Gemma 🙂
Great recipe!!🙂my children love scones
Ah! great Jasmijn, so happy that you are baking these,
Gemma 🙂
Hi Gemma !
Greetings of the day 🙂
I made lemon scones , and instead of using the milk and cream , I used yoghurt. I made lemon curd using almond milk and used that in between the two scone layers ! They were perfect. And extremely satisfying. It’s raining here and quite chilly. I served them warm , right out of the oven and my family loved it !
I can never thank you enough for all your recipes. They are truly making me ” Big and Bold ”
Yea! this is what I love to hear! it really helps other bold bakers to hear that you have adapted the recipes to your need, well done you,
Gemma 🙂
Thanks 😀
Quick tip: when baked you can freeze the scones really well, they should be good up to 3 months
Great tip. I love it.
Hi Gemma,
I have just tried your scone recipe -they are so good! I baked them not 35 -but 25 minutes as they were already golden top after 25 minutes! Thank you for recipe.
Hi Karine,
I’m delighted to hear that. Thanks you so much for trying out my recipes.
Best,
Gemma.