Girdle Scones AKA Soda Scones
Girdle Scones AKA Soda Scones

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Great recipe for Girdle Scones AKA Soda Scones. This is a heavy, buttermilk scone. If you want a pastry, look elsewhere.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook girdle scones aka soda scones using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Girdle Scones AKA Soda Scones:
  1. Prepare 1 lb flour, sifted
  2. Take 1 tsp baking soda
  3. Take 1 tsp Cream of Tartar
  4. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  5. Get 1 buttermilk

Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl. Rub in the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the currants (or sultanas if you prefer) and then add just enough milk to make a soft dough. Don't add all the milk at once.

Instructions to make Girdle Scones AKA Soda Scones:
  1. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. Add Buttermilk to make soft dough. Mix with hands just until forms a ball. Too long makes the scones a little tough.
  3. Pat a ball of dough into a circle about 8-10 inches across, you can use a rolling pin to make it a little thinner, but not less than 1/4".  Cut each circle into quarters.
  4. Bake on a fairly hot griddle 5 minutes on each side, and about 1 minute on the edges, tip them against each other or the edge of the pan. You can also use an iron skillet or frying pan if you don't have a traditional Scottish girdle.
  5. If they are too doughy inside you can cook the next batch a little longer.
  6. These scones are a heavy bread, so don't be surprised by that.

Marian McNeill's book 'The Scots Kitchen', and selected a recipe entitled 'White Girdle Scones, or Soda Scones'. The 'white' refers to the fact that these scones are made with wheat flour, rather than oatmeal or barleymeal (these along with rye are Scotland's traditional grains); the secondary title reveals that the scones are. Girdle (Griddle) Scones Long ago, when domestic ovens were a rarity, it was usual to make scones over the fire on a heated cast iron plate. In Ireland this plate was called a griddle, in Scotland a girdle and in Wales, a bake stone. Scots refer griddle as girdle and hence the name girdle scones.

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