Light and fluffy, cheesy, herby, buttermilk scones… a great alternative to bread as an accompaniment to summer dishes. I used dill, but you could use basil, rosemary, or parsley. Or a mixture of several herbs.
Cheesy Dill Buttermilk Scones
- 225g (8 oz) self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 45g (3 tbsps) butter
- 175 ml (3/4 cup)buttermilk
- 40g (1/2 cup) parmesan/cheddar cheese, grated
- 4-5 tbsps chopped dill (or other herbs)
- salt and black pepper
Sieve flour and baking soda into a bowl. Cut butter into small pieces and rub into the flour with fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Season, then stir in the cheese. Add buttermilk little by little and bring the dough together to form a ball. If your dough is very wet, you may not need all the buttermilk. Do not knead it! On a floured surface roll out to about 2-3cm thick and cut out shapes with a round pastry cutter. This recipe makes about 8-10 scones, depending on your cutter. Place on greaseproof paper on a baking tray and bake at 180°C for about 10 minutes.
Savour the last days of summer everyone!
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Link for conversion tables:
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oh my these look so luscious…mmm….I am bookmarking these….
For a rainy day…! 😉
Oh, I just had a dill macaroni salad tonight. I had made these fabulous dill pickles this year…and it’s so hot and muggy tonight I just felt like salad. So the taste of dill is still on my tongue! and making me very tempted to make these scones! Thanks for the link to the conversion chart… for it will take
1 4/5 C flour…I think I’ll start with 2 C since you feel it could be a bit moist to begin with. I have to convert the heat in the oven now… from C to F. Slowly but surely you are teaching me to have a feeling for these conversions and I thank you. 🙂
Hi Merrill. I’m learning too. I’m afraid I mix up all my measurement units, but it keeps me on my toes too! Most things I bake at 200°C, which is 400°F. So 190°C is 375°F, 180°C is 350°F, etc. (Dill pickles sounds nice!)
Sie sehen sehr lecker aus. I love Dill 🙂
I think they’d taste good with most herbs! 😀
Scones are my favorite, I love the texture. Tonight was Italian sauce and meatballs night. Your scones would have been delicious with it.
I bet they would go nicely with tomato sauce – we sometimes have cheesy scones with casseroles.
Cathy, your “Cheesy Dill Scones” look delicious! I think I´ll give them a try. Thank you!
Good morning Elisabeth! Glad you want to try them… I think parsley would be good in them too! 😀
Delicious-looking scones – just need to get some buttermilk, then I can bake some this afternoon!
Enjoy baking! 😀
Cathy…I am hungry!!! 😀 Sharon
Hi Sharon! Help yourself to a couple – I baked plenty! 😉
Thank you!! These are some of the times I wish I could just reach out into the screen and grab one for real! 😀 And they look so close and real I can almost smell them too… Loving your work all the time Cathy! Sharon
Thanks Sharon! 😀
SOMEBODY keeps eating my dill…If it was the swallowtail caterpillars, I could forgive them. I think it’s the rabbits, though.
Wonderful recipe!
Wow, gourmet rabbits! Wonder if they’d eat the scones too…! 😉
They do look good and re comments about measures – I never got the cup thing until I realised you can buy measuring things that are in cups – i mean i’ve tried doing a recipe using a cup but I think my idea of what a cup is was very different to whoever created the recipe
You know, we had the same discussion last weekend as a friend of mine uses a teacup. We decided it is about the same size as the measure!
They look delicious! I bet they taste good with a cream cheese spread as well.
Ooh yes – good idea! 😀
How’s the rosemary version….it sounds sooooo good. ..and the cream cheese that sounds good too…excuse me I haven’t had breakfast yet… 😉
Oh dear, reading recipes on an empty stomach is not good… I think you should help yourself to a few to go with your morning coffee, then bake yourself a batch for lunch! 😉 I like the sound of cream cheese too. Rosemary is always good, parsley and basil too. Haven’t tried thyme yet. 😀
Perhaps you’ll find the time for it… 😉
Oh dear, we really ARE on the same wavelength… I nearly wrote that I hadn’t had time to make thyme ones yet! LOL! 😉
Liked, printed… and on the catering schedule for a friend’s book launch. Ca va impressioner !
Great! 😀
Yup, so great we translated it!
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