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Breakfast scones

Breakfast scones: coarse wheat meal and flour are rubbed with butter, mixed with baking powder, sugar, salt and soured milk, rolled, cut and baked. Variants: coffee scones and potato scones. From Erken's Big Cookbook (1949), p. 643.

Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1949-utg. s. 643 (falt i det fri)

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About the dish

Three scone recipes sit together with a shared method: breakfast scones, coffee scones with raisins and potato scones.

How to make it

  1. 1

    Mix the dough

    Rub the butter into the flour. Mix in baking powder, sugar, salt and milk, and work everything together quickly.

  2. 2

    Roll out

    Roll the dough out to a little over 1 cm thick.

  3. 3

    Cut and bake

    Cut out rounds, prick them and bake on a tray in a hot oven.

  4. 4

    Variant: coffee scones

    500 g plain flour, 4 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp sugar, 70 g butter, 1 dl raisins and 3½ dl milk. Same method.

  5. 5

    Variant: potato scones

    100 g coarse wheat meal, 100 g boiled potatoes, 2 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 20 g butter and 1/2 dl milk. Same method.

Changes from the original

Three recipes with the same method are grouped; coffee scones and potato scones are included as variants. '¼ — sukker' in the coffee scones is read as 1/4 tsp. No oven temperature or baking time is given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between the three recipes?
Breakfast scones use coarse wheat meal, coffee scones have raisins, potato scones have boiled potatoes.
Why are scones pricked?
The book says they are cut out and pricked before baking.

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