How to make the BEST British Scones - Step by step recipe

[@WITYTRAVELS]

This is the sequel we've all been waiting for!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@WITYTRAVELS you are as sweet as a scone! 😉💕

[@MemesAndVehiclesYT]

I love this channel, because I find it interesting to see what non-English people think about my home country. Great scones! I always love them with raspberry jam and a bit of cream and tea. Best combination ever!!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@MemesAndVehiclesYT thanks so much for the kind comment! I also prefer raspberry jam over strawberry jam. It's just got that extra zing! And it goes so well with clotted cream😋. Cheers! Dara

[@MemesAndVehiclesYT]

@ I totally agree! It just has this certain flavour that I can’t quite figure out what it is, but it’s so good!!

[@griswald7156]

I found my freedom with blueberry fill…framboise confiture est toute Britannica pour moi…

[@MemesAndVehiclesYT]

@@griswald7156 I have to admit, blueberry also tastes very good!

[@ValsLooneyKitchen]

Thank you for putting in chapters. I'm going to try your recipe.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I hope you do! The recipe with all the hints is in the description. Let me know how they turn out if you try. And you have to do the clotted cream too for the whole experience ;-)

[@ThisIsOurRetirement]

Yum Yum Dara Scones fresh cream and strawberry jam can’t get much better than that , we wish you and your family a very Happy New Year 🇺🇸🥂🥳🇨🇦

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Happy New Year! Can you get good clotted cream in Canada? We can't here in the US, but I know Canada has different regulations on dairy products...

[@WITYTRAVELS]

Great job! looks yummy

[@itsonlyme9938]

I did something good in this world today I watched you making British scones.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@itsonlyme9938 haha cheers for that! 👍💕

[@itsonlyme9938]

@@MagentaOtterTravels I thought you would love that comment.😌😌😌.

[@ValsLooneyKitchen]

And, I love your kitchen!

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thanks so much, Val! I am LOVING it! By the way, thanks to YOU... Santa brought me a digital thermometer for measuring the temp on liquids when I'm cooking! Happy New Year!

[@ValsLooneyKitchen]

@@MagentaOtterTravels I can’t live without mine. You’re welcome 😇

[@The_Brit_Girls]

Hey Dara, we hear you! We dearly miss our delicious British scones. Sigh! Ooh, clotted cream first then the jam on top! 👍👍Ah, I hadn't realized that sultanas are called "golden raisins" in the United States! What a lovely photo of your special cream tea with your friends. I'm going to take a copy of your perfected recipe and give it a try. This will be after a dry and healthy January! Thank you!! 😋😋

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Best wishes for a very healthy January! 🏋️‍♀️ Wait till you see my video next Friday! Very appropriate😀 I'm glad that I could teach you an American translation! I'm surprised you didn't know about that after all this time living in the states! Lol

[@gillianmeehan3206]

Very interesting Dara, thank you for taking the trouble to recreate our national treats. So many people get carried away with the rolling pin and before you know it they are too thin and re-rolling will make them heavy and dense. My rule of thumb for thickness is that the dough should be the same height as the top joint of your thumb.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@gillianmeehan3206 that's a great "tip of the finger tip"! I've made them too thin in the past, and was determined to not repeat that mistake! The dough is so soft that a rolling pin really isn't necessary. I think that pressing out the dough and folding it a couple times works great .

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Fair play Dara! I don't cook cakes or baked goods at all! They all looked really good! Looking forward to your cream tea or afternoon tea! Cheers 🍻

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

Bravo Dara! They all looked delicious. Saved my comment on the clotted cream to add here (it took looked delicious). Sadly I did not have scones & clotted cream on our UK trip. 😆 I think I’ll have to try your recipes and make my own. Fun video! ~Cara ❤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

No way!!! You didn't have scones and clotted cream on your trip? I'm so sad!!

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

@ me too! I knew you’d be disappointed I didn’t have Sticky Toffee pudding either.. don’t unfriend me 😂. I just can’t do sweet foods during the day and neither seemed like I should take back to our accommodation. 🥲~Cara

[@cathnaylor2105]

Hope to see you in York in August for the Scone festival in Bedern Hall

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@cathnaylor2105 I didn't know about the scone festival! How fun!

[@paulguise698]

Hiya Dara,youre scones looked delicious, all of them,yum, I really liked the tall puffy ones,Im glad you didnt say that horrible phrase,you know what,this is Choppy

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@paulguise698 thanks so much! I loved the puffy ones!!

[@glastonbury4304]

Wow you got it 😘👌

[@jamesbeeching6138]

Great video Dara!! Your plain scones with buttermilk looked the best.....Also I like that you alternate between Scone (gone) and Scone(cone)!!!!😊😊😊😊😊

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Bad habit I've developed over the years of trying to keep everybody happy! haha

[@jamesbeeching6138]

@MagentaOtterTravels not bad at all....People from literally down the road who I've grown up with say either Scone (cone) or Scone (gone) ...It is really random cos saying both is fine!!!😉😉😉😉🦦🦦🦦🦦

[@GENerationXplorers]

Gosh those fruity scones look amazing. Disappointing you say, How so? Too dense? Stirring with a knife, good tip. The second batch do look better and puffier! Both batches reveal nicely. A fruity scone that puffs up, let’s see how this goes. Hmm, that is a lot of baking powder. These look great, love the steam coming off them! A fourth attempt! You certainly have perfected the scone recipe now! Your hard work has inspired me, i shall nip to the shop and buy some scones for NYE! ❤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Happy New Year, friends! I'm just back from 12 days in Utah visiting family over the holidays. Trying to catch up on comments and videos. Thanks for watching this one. I hope you had delicious treats at your NYE celebration!

[@Mediawatcher2023]

And also Pumpkin Scones are so Yummy and don't forget to have a cup of tea with it its a tradition

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@Mediawatcher2023 pumpkin sounds good! Do they have cinnamon in them?

[@elizabethcutrofello2572]

Okay, Dara, you've inspired me to try and make these rascals once again. Shall we just say my first two attempts weren't exactly triumphs.😅🎉❤ Liz in icy Essex, Connecticut

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Liz, I hope you make scones and clotted cream and they turn out well. Please let me know! XX Dara

[@WITYTRAVELS]

There's a lot of hip-hop lingo in this video. Very fresh.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Haha, I'm sure you were the only one who noticed!

[@cathnaylor2105]

You have a good 'Yawn' in the plain and fruit scones. I always use a Bero recipe

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@cathnaylor2105 i've never heard the term yawn. That's awesome!

[@cathnaylor2105]

​@@MagentaOtterTravelsthe 'Yawn' is the natural split in the scone ❤

[@ShaneNixonFamily]

Just goes to show that there are as many scone recipes as there are scone makers. It looks like all the ones you did are what we'd class as "sweet" scones. I asked me dear old mum for her recipe and it is amazingly simple. 2 cups self Raising flour (do you guys have that? No need for baking powder or soda), teaspoon of sugar, cup of cream, enough milk to make cake like dough. Turn it out with and knead with more flour. Cut out then hot oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Perfect with butter or cream, and jam. She has another recipe with more sugar and fruit - closer to the ones you make I think.

[@Poliss95]

Nice impression of Uncle Sam at the start Dara. this country needs Clotted Cream! 😂 A brown egg! Where did you find that?? I love the big scones you made last. My tip. Make a shield from kitchen foil to stop them leaning over, or turn the fan off if you can. I just had a quick browse about how many scone recipes I had. I stopped counting when I got to 29. There's a recipe on the side of every packet of flour. One recipe says you can use lemon juice if you can't get buttermilk. Another one says to use lard, which I substitute with Trex, or Crisco vegetable shortening which is what I think it's called over in the US. My Scottish recipe book says they're better made on a gridle. Easier to tell when done and texture is better.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

If they're made on the griddle, they are Welsh cakes! Ha ha, I'm glad you liked all the pointing at the beginning! I was being very emphatic! 🤣

[@Poliss95]

@@MagentaOtterTravels The griddle method was from my Scottish cookbook. That's how Robert Burns had them in the 18th century. Welsh cakes are thinner.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

@@Poliss95 I know Welsh cakes are thinner, but it still seems like a Welsh cake approach 😉. I have stopped buying normal American eggs. We have been paying extra money to get pasture raised eggs. They are crazy expensive, and often are brown! Unlike most American eggs .

[@glastonbury4304]

Keep your own recipe to yourself and pass it down the generations 🥰😋😋

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Too late! I've put it on KZbin! LOL

[@glastonbury4304]

@MagentaOtterTravels ...I'm sure after a few more goes you'll have added your secret ingredient no one else will know...🤣🤣

[@RichardWells1]

I always enjoy watching other people making scones: it removes the anxiety about their quality when you eat them! 😜Just wondered whether your "(pause) really great" is a euphemism for "doughy and undercooked"...?

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

As I was saying really great I didn't know if they were truly undercooked. I only learnt that when I tasted them later. But honestly the flavour and texture was top notch. So I had to try the recipe again with some tweaks to achieve ultimate success! Thanks for watching, Richard!

[@RichardWells1]

@@MagentaOtterTravels Flavour should be good - you've had loads of practice!

[@susansmiles2242]

If you put fruit in the scones you may need more raising agent BUT don’t overdo it or the scones will be bitter Buttermilk or sour cream is great for the rise as it reacts with the baking soda I also don’t roll out scones I just gather up the dough and flatten it out with my hands to about 2 inches then cut them out being carful not to twist the cutter I also glaze the top being carful not to let any drip down the sides

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Thanks for the great tips!

[@jeanlongsden1696]

when you said you was going to try a third recipe, I thought you was going to make Cheese Scones.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I still haven't made those. I'll have to try that sometime!

[@glastonbury4304]

Another tip for fluffy scones is triple sift the flour and play around with the butter measurements till you get them how you like as too much butter makes them denser, so experiment till you have your ideal scone ❤

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Triple sifting! I've never heard of that

[@glastonbury4304]

@MagentaOtterTravels ...its probably more a kind of 3 for luck type of thing but it seems to work...try it once and let me know if it works...maybe it's just the practice of doing it gives you more love and passion to getting it right...who knows , just feels right 🤷‍♂️😂🥰

[@griswald7156]

The good in the world i did today was arrange a visit to a dear in a care home….it would be nice if everybody actually said what good they did in the world today..then we could vote for the best good in the world today entrant..

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

Awwww, I love that you did that! So nice to visit people who are lonely over the holidays!

[@lizbignell2820]

My mother once made some scones, and as she had made so many, she decided to take some to an elderly neighbour. When she returned she found that the dog had eaten all the rest! She used to say to him, ‘Who are the scones and seven lots of knitting?” He would immediately look guilty.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

That is so funny!!! But I would have been very angry at the dog!

[@lizbignell2820]

I don’t think she was best pleased at the time but she held it over hi for the rest of his life!

[@wencireone]

Wow, look at you using metric and dissing Paul Hollywood recipe, you're ready for The Great Texas Bake Off

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

hee hee ;-)

[@griswald7156]

The English way is to cut the scone in half ,spread jam on one side then CC on the other half..then clash with the cymbal action…eat with a pastry fork and slurp down with some old left over breakfast tea…

[@glastonbury4304]

Is that the Somerset version 😉😅😋

[@griswald7156]

@ its going to be the Texan whey cake.

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

That's an amusing image LOL

[@IamaDutch-Kiwi]

Oh Dara a true challenge. First batch- no baking powder. Batch 2: I learnt to use a knife when mixing as well ( I was 12)! The third batch- way too much baking powder- it will have influenced the flavour. Great thinking - a combination adjusting according to your own taste. I just love a good scone. Awesome Dara. 👌🇳🇱🙋‍♀🥝👍47 P.S. to get castor sugar ( which is finer than regular sugar) put sugar in blender. Pulse till required smaller grains. Castor sugar dissolves quicker leaving no grainy mouth feel. 🩷

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

I have made caster sugar before... but honestly I was too lazy! And I think they turned out fine with regular granulated in the scones. It was a hassle doing so many variations, but I was quite pleased with the final results. And now I've made that recipe several times... including in Utah over Christmas for my brother and his wife who lived in England for 3 years!