Buttermilk scones

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• Claire

  15 June 2008

  Claire commented on this recipe

  I left out the salt and added 100G of green naturally dried raisins and five chopped up naturally dried apricots. I marinated the fruit with the zest of 1 lemon, the juice of half a lemon and 50g of caster sugar. I made the dough in the food processor from start to finish and stirred the marinated fruit into the flour/butter mixture before adding the butter milk and briefly mixing on the pulse setting.

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• Julie

  05 March 2009

  Julie commented on this recipe

  I'd like to use this mix as a base for cherry, cheese and for fruit scones - can anyone help with the measurements for these additional ingredients? Thanks

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• gr8pockets

  24 June 2009

  gr8pockets commented on this recipe

  Lovely fluffy scones!! My 3 year old daughter and I made them on Father's Day, as daddy had a long lie. We thoroughly enjoyed making them together and we had them warm with homemade potato soup for lunch, which Daddy loved!! My daughter rubbed the butter into the dry ingredients which was very roughly done but I think her little effort paid off as I think you can over mix the dough sometimes As I did not have any buttermilk in I used Low-fat Greek yoghurt ( Tesco's own variety) instead and the scones were beautiful.

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• parlanchina

  21 April 2010

  parlanchina rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Love these scones, they always turn out well. I usually have to add some sultanas though as everyone prefers them in!

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• craftylou

  04 June 2010

  craftylou commented on this recipe

  can i ask what is buttermilk and where can i buy it

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• Sharon

  06 July 2010

  Sharon rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Served these with the potted fresh and smoked salmon as suggested at a party for my parents birthday. Made in the morning and reheated just before serving - really delicious

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• greengirl

  10 January 2012

  greengirl rated and commented on this recipe

  

  giving one star on this one. the mix was very very wet when I added the buttermilk. I thought it looked wrong but this needed to have more flour and other ingredients for that amount of milk. very disappointed so will be going back to my tried and trusted odlums.ie recipe from now on

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• Marion''s Favourites

  30 March 2012

  Marion''s Favourites rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I make these often and freeze half for later. although they are savoury they go well with jam or marmalade but are ideal with cheese.

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• barbara

  11 March 2013

  barbara commented on this recipe

  Buttermilk is a thick bitter milk that has cultures in it. You can get it in most supermarkets in the Milk coolers. You can substitute with half yogurt- half milk Kefir works too

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Ingredients

• 350g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• a good pinch of salt
• 85g butter
• 284ml carton buttermilk

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Makes 16

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Ingredients

• 350g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• a good pinch of salt
• 85g butter
• 284ml carton buttermilk

Nutrition per scone

118 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 17g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 1g, salt 0.56 g

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