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Nutrition: Per scone

  • kcal107
  • fat4g
  • saturates2g
  • carbs16g
  • sugars2g
  • fibre1g
  • protein2g
  • salt0.2g
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Put the flour in a bowl and coarsely grate in the butter (dipping the butter into the flour can make it easier to grate; do this as often as you need). Use a butter knife to stir the butter into the flour, then mix in the sugar and spice.

  • step 2

    Add the pumpkin and 80ml milk to the flour mixture and quickly stir everything together. Add more milk if you need to.

  • step 3

    Tip the mixture onto a floured surface and lightly bring together with your hands a couple of times. Roll out until 4cm thick and stamp out rounds with a 7cm cutter. Re-shape the trimmings until all the dough has been used. Place the rounds on a lightly floured baking sheet and brush the tops with any remaining milk. Bake for 10-12 mins until risen and lightly browned.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2018

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A star rating of 3.5 out of 5.15 ratings

nq4bhp7f8d65041

Definitely don’t use the method they recommend for mixing the butter - you’ll end up with something more pastry-like. Otherwise, this recipe is a favourite in our house and a good way to use some of the Halloween pumpkins.

janrichard8282078

Needed to use fingers and traditional method to blend grated butter through. When rolled to 2cm thickness gave 13 scones (no way you get 25 if rolling 4cm thick, that just doesn’t sound right). Not enough spice and didn’t taste of pumpkin. Was just ok, would’ve been better to just make regular…

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question

The recipe mentions cooked pumpkin - how is it meant to be cooked? Boiled, roasted or something else? I imagine it would change the texture depending on how it's cooked, so would lik to know.

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goodfoodteam

Hi, thanks for your question. You can cut it into chunks and bake or roast (30-40 mins) or boil (15-20 mins). We'd boil it for this recipe (draining it well), but either would be fine. We hope this helps. Best wishes, BBC Good Food Team.

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You definitely want to add more sugar and spices . I did mine with bread flour and baking powder instead . With those differences they turned out pretty good . Only made 5 .

chrissie383

I was so disappointed with this recipe, I wish I had read the comments before making it.

I don’t think it’s good enough that recipes are posted without being tested first, this one was posted by the editor which gives the impression that it is either her recipe, or that she is recommending it.

I…

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