GLUTEN FREE SCONES RECIPE PLEASE

[BagWoman]

Hoep you can help. I am brill at making ordinary scones- they come out huge! But wheat free- hopeless.

I've been using my ordinary recipe but they just are not rising. if I add more baking powder they taste salty.

I've tried Dove's Farm strong flour and also their ordinary plain flour with added baking powder ( I do this for wheat flour scones and it works a treat. it also works brill for gluten free cakes)

I am using:
8oz Dove's Farm flour
2 oz marg
3 teaspoons baking powder
Enough milk or milk subtitute ( oat milk etc) to bind
Little sugar
raisins

Looking on web there are some recipes adding more xantham gum, more baking powder and an egg.

Any suggestions?

[Jammygal]

What about getting some doves sr flour which has bicarbonate and xantham already in it ;)

I find their flour awesome and hardly ever adjust recipes ;)

[BagWoman]

But how would that be any different? the flour I used already has xanthan gum in it anyway. All I did was add baking powder which ought to be fine.

[Whoateallthecheese]

I struggle with scones too, although I can do a mean cheese scone that rises a treat, happy to give the (very easy) recipe for that if it helps.

For normal scones, I found the choc chip scone recipe from the Gluten Free Cooking For Kids book by Adriana Rabinovich worked the best of any I've tried so far, I substituted raisins for the choc chips and they worked really well. Apparently you can also turn these into cheese scones too but I haven't tried this adaptation.

[Whoateallthecheese]

If was going to have a go at adapting the recipe you talk about above, I'd do the following:

I usually use 2 tsp of baking powder for 8 oz.
Add about a 1/4 tsp of xantham gum
Doves farm plain flour
And try butter instead of marg

I've been gf for over a decade now and have done a lot of experimenting over the years!

But also - and this might sound really stupid, but I used to roll the dough out thinner and expect it to rise. GF stuff doesn't rise as well, so I tried not rolling it out as thin. When I left the mixture thicker, they rose a bit but ended up looking like 'proper' scones rather than coasters!