British Scones
Cuisine: Chinese
British Scones is a Chinese dessert, built around Unsalted butter.
Difficulty
3 / 5
★★★☆☆
Estimated Calories
1197 kcal
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter (Président brand recommended)
- Cake flour
- Sugar
- Salt
- Baking powder
- Egg
- Whipping cream
- Cream cheese (optional)
Steps
- Beat the egg, weigh out 30 g into a clean container, then add all the cream and the cream cheese and mix well. If the cheese is too hard, warm it in a water bath to about 40 degrees before mixing.
- Mix the cake flour, salt, sugar and baking powder evenly in a clean container
- Cut the butter into small pieces, add to the dry mixture and rub it in with your fingers until it resembles coarse cornmeal
- Pour the egg-cream mixture from step one into the butter-flour mixture, stir until nearly combined, then fold and press into an even dough
- Place the dough on the board, roll it out 1.5 cm thick and cut into suitable shapes with a knife or cutter
- Brush the remaining 20 g of beaten egg over the tops of the scones
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for 27 minutes
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Notes
British scones are a classic afternoon tea treat: crisp outside, soft inside, with a rich egg-and-cream aroma, even better with jam or clotted cream. Made mainly from flour, butter, eggs and cream, they are rich in carbohydrates and protein for a quick energy boost. The process is fairly simple; with basic dough-handling skills, beginners can manage it. It takes about an hour from prep to out of the oven.
Estimated difficulty: ★★★
Estimated calories: 1197 kcal
Group: British Scones
Calculation:
Before baking, decide how many batches you plan to make. One batch serves 4-6 people.
Per batch:
- Unsalted butter 40 g
- Cake flour 180 g
- Sugar 30 g
- Salt 1 g
- Baking powder 5 g
- Egg 1 (about 50 g)
- Whipping cream 45 g
- Cream cheese 50 g
- The simplest way to cut them is to roll the dough into a circle and cut it into 6 wedges