Recipe for scones with plain flour?

[Starfish83]

Just that, really. I know Paul Hollywood has one that uses ‘strong white flour’ - could that be plain flour? Somewhat desperate to make scones today, but don’t have any self-raising flour!

Thanks in advance folks! 🤞🏼

Strong white flour is bread flour - it has a higher protein/gluten content than plain flour which gives bread its chewy, open texture. You can make anything that uses self-raising flour with plain flour, you just need to add a raising agent such as baking powder otherwise you'll have hockey pucks instead of scones 😂

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/paul_hollywoods_scones_70005 I think this is the recipe you're referring to - as you can see it also includes 5 TSP baking powder.

bung in some baking powder or bicarb and Robert is your mum's brother.

the simplest recipe for scones is just to mix flour with sour cream to make a dough that is cohesive without being sticky, but you do need the raising agent in there somehow.

Baking powder. Two teaspoons per 150g plain flour. The bbc good food recipe fir scones is great.

The Doves Farm recipe and the Dr Oetker recipe both use plain flour.

Has anyone used that Paul Hollywood recipe? I'd be concerned with that much baking powder the scones would taste strongly of it and have that mouth-drying quality, which is something I've noticed on the odd occasion I've had a bought scone or a scone in a cafe, but not on a good home-made one.