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Potato Scones RecipeHow to make potato scones with this easy to cook Scottish recipe:
This Potato Scones Recipe is easy to make and requires few ingredients. Potato scones can be enjoyed on their own with a topping such as butter, margarine, jam, marmalade, grated cheese, etc. Scottish potato scones are best eaten warm and are easily reheated. |
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Many people in Scotland eat their potato scone with a fry up or with beans. Potato scones are traditionally eaten at breakfast time though Eating in  suggests eating tattie scones with a bowl of
broth or
lentil soup.
The book Scots Cooking: The Best Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Recipes  by Sue Lawrence recommends adding some grated cheddar cheese to a potato scones recipe and serving them with a bowl of broth or lentil soup for lunch.
There are many other names for Scottish potato scones such as tattie scones, tatty scones and potatoe scones. Some bakers, such as Warburtons, make potato cakes
which as much lighter and more like a scone.
The book Sue Lawrence's Scottish Kitchen: Over 100 Modern Recipes Using Traditional Ingredients  has a tattie scones with bacon recipe.
Ingredients For Potato Scones500g of mashed potatoes 100g of plain flour 50g of butter Pinch of salt Play our fun, free Whack The Haggis game at our other website www.aboutaberdeen.com Scottish Cook Books 
How To Make Potato Scones
A girdle or griddle pan is the best way to make potato scones though a frying pan can also be used. The trick is not to let the potato scones mixture get dry.
Boil the tatties and then mash them thoroughly. Add butter and salt if needed. A healthier potato scone recipe should omit the salt. In a mixing bowl mix in the plain flour with the mashed tatties ensuring the potato scones mixture does not go dry. 
Empty onto a flat surface and use a rolling pin to roll out the mixture evenly and to a desired height of about 3mm. For this recipe for potato scones cut into the traditional shape of potato scones of triangles, though some bakers now sell round tattie scones.
Put each triangular potato scone into the griddle or frying pan and cook on both sides until brown. Serve whilst hot for tasty potato scones. 
Scots broadcaster, Kirsty Young, discusses her love for Scottish potato scones in Taste Ye Back: Great Scots and the Food That Made Them . She describes how her mum makes her a Scottish breakfast with potato scones and black pudding.
An alternative to Scottish potato scones is the German dish of Reibekuchen which are potato pancakes, These are a bit similar but with extra ingredients such as nutmeg, eggs and onions. A recipe for these potato pancakes can be found in The Food-lover's Guide to Europe  .
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