How to Make Delicious Scones: Crispy, Slightly Sweet, and Salty

Scones have a history of several hundred years in Britain, and are now divided into British scones and American scones. British scones are generally made with flour, sugar or salt, with a slightly sweet or slightly salty taste, and with fewer ingredients added.

American scones often include many other ingredients, such as cream, nuts, dried fruits, and have a richer and softer texture. However, whether it's British or American scones, they are all delicious scones.

Here are the required ingredients: 128g flour, 72g butter, 18g white sugar, 1/4 cup cream, 1 egg, 40g raisins, 1/4 tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.

Step 1: First, add the prepared sugar, salt, and baking powder to the prepared flour, then gently mix them with a whisk.

Step 2: Cut the relatively hard butter in the refrigerator into small pieces and use your hands to rub it into the flour, so that the butter is coated with flour, and then crush the butter pieces with your hands.

Step 3: Then, use your hands to crush and scatter the flour and butter into a coarse flour-like state. When kneading, do it quickly, don't overheat your hands to melt the butter.

Step 4: Wash the raisins clean and absorb excess moisture with kitchen paper, then pour the raisins in and use your hands to rub them in. The raisins used are mixed flavor raisins, everyone can add their favorite dried fruits according to their preferences.

Step 5: Then pour the cream into a bowl, add 1 egg and vanilla extract to the cream, and add vanilla extract to reduce the fishy taste.

Step 6: Mix the egg and vanilla extract with the cream, and in the flour, cut a pit into the flour, and pour the egg liquid into the pit, and use a spatula to evenly mix the flour and egg liquid.

Step 7: Don't overmix, don't stir, it's easy to make the dough firm, which will make the finished product not crispy and won't create perfect cracks. After mixing into a dough, wrap it in parchment paper and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, or freeze it for 7-8 minutes.

Step 8: After refrigerating the dough, place it on a board sprinkled with baking powder, and sprinkle a little baking powder on the top to prevent sticking. First press the dough with your hand to flatten it, then roll it out into a 1.5cm thick slice.

Step 9: Use a cookie cutter to press out each pastry, and apply a little baking powder to the inner and outer rims of the cutter to prevent sticking, which helps to obtain perfect pastries.

Step 10: Apply egg liquid to the surface of each scone, and then put it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. At this time, you can also preheat the oven to 180 degrees for about 12-15 minutes.

Put it into the oven, 180 degrees, bake for 10-11 minutes. Soft and fluffy scones with perfect cracks are ready! They are great for breakfast with coffee or tea, afternoon tea, or as snacks and desserts. If you like it, try it!

Each scone has a different taste and different texture. Making scones is very simple. However, you need to use an oven. Here’s how to make a cheese scone.

Here are the required ingredients: 40g unsalted butter, 150g low-gluten flour, 100g cream cheese, 20g granulated sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 50ml milk, 1 small tsp baking powder, a little egg liquid.

Step 1: Cut the butter into small pieces and mix it with the low-gluten flour, use your hands to knead the butter and low-gluten flour into a loose state. Cut the cream cheese into small pieces and cut it into pieces while cutting it.

Step 2: Mix the cream cheese, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt with the low-gluten flour, and pour in the milk. Knead the materials into a dough without kneading, just let it form a dough.

Step 3: Press the dough into a block with a certain thickness, cut it into 8 pieces, and put it into the baking pan, brush the surface with egg liquid.

Step 4: Put it into the preheated 180 degree oven, in the middle layer, bake for 15-20 minutes.