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Butter Scones

A scone made from butter, cream, and flour, baked on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

Butter Scones

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Salt the cream to taste.

  2. Stir the cream into enough flour to form a dough.

  3. Knead the dough well.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out the dough thinly.

  2. Cut into scone shapes and prick with a fork.

  3. Bake on a griddle over a clear fire until golden brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the main structure of the dough, which sets as it is kneaded and baked.
Thin cream
Adds fat and moisture for a tender crumb and helps the scones brown.

The step that matters

Bake on a griddle over a clear fire until golden brown. Direct heat from a fire can scorch the outside before the centre is cooked through. Watch the colour closely and keep the heat steady so the scones bake evenly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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