Irish Scones Recipe: Light Buttermilk Scones the Way Irish Grannies Make Them (Plain, Fruit and Brown)
A proper Irish scones recipe with buttermilk, cold butter and self-raising flour, in metric and US cups, plus fruit (sultana), brown wholemeal, old-style soda and cheese versions. Then the five rules for tall, light scones (never twist the cutter), a self-raising flour swap for US bakers, freezing baked and unbaked scones, the jam-or-cream question, Irish vs English vs American scones, what 1930s Irish schoolchildren recorded about scones, and how to say scone in English and Irish.