Mum's Potato Scones
When the afternoon tea munchies strike, this easy classic scone recipe will satisfy the fussiest eaters. Thanks Thermomix.
I know you all have in the deep recesses of either your mind or your kitchen shelf, a recipe that you would love to be making in your Thermomix…am I right? But for one reason or another, you have never attempted it; Too hard to convert, not sure how to convert, it might not taste the same….you think maybe it cannot be done in the Thermomix….the list of reasons is endless. I personally have a couple of laden bookshelves with recipe books all dying for a 'quickie'…you know, the Thermomix method to be applied to them.
My mother has provided me with a veritable library of individually typed recipes from her collection over the years and I truly want to get those onto here eventually. After all, it is she who inspired me throughout my childhood with food and creativity both. I am in her debt…love and miss you mum!
Depending where you live, the term 'scone' differs. English scones are more similar to American biscuits and they’re often topped with butter, jam, or clotted cream. This is how I decided to serve these. My mum's original recipe is below, warts and all! But we did love the new Thermomix version.
The thing about scones is, you can add in all sorts of inclusions, cheese, onion, fruits of all sorts, dried and fresh, such as blueberries, you can glaze them, dust them with sugar, add seeds, nuts etc. Really they are a great canvas for your imagination! Have fun, and think about what classic family recipe you would like to convert then have a go!
Mum's Wholemeal Potato Scones
THE OG Recipe
2 oz margarine (remember no judgements!!)
1 tbsp sugar
1 medium potato
2 cups wholemeal SR flour
Pinch salt
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
Method;
Boil peeled potato, and sieve. Cool.
Cream marg and sugar, add potato. Add sifted flour and salt.
Then beaten egg and milk.
Put on floured board, roll to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut with cutter.
Cook close together on greased tray. Hot oven, approx 15 mins. Serve hot, buttered. (Yay, some butter showed up!)
We do have a few other scone recipes on this site, be sure to check them out here:
Pink Champagne and Strawberry Scones
Hazelnut Pecan and Chocolate Scones
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Need
- 1 potato, peeled and cubed
- 800 Grams water
- 100 Grams wheat grain
- 60 Grams butter BUY
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 320 Grams SR flour
- 1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
- 1 eggs
- 110 Grams milk plus a little extra for brushing
Do
- 1
Place potato into simmering basket and pour water over. Cook 20 min/100ºC/speed 3. Remove simmering basket and cool potato.
- 2
Preheat oven to 200ºC and line a flat baking tray with paper.
- 3
Place wheat into clean and dry Thermomix bowl and mill 1 min/speed 10. Set aside.
- 4
Place butter and sugar into Thermomix bowl and blend 5 sec/speed 5.
- 5
Add remaining ingredients except including cooled potato and mix for 6 sec/speed 6.
- 6
Knead 30 sec/dough setting/Interval.
- 7
Roll out dough on well floured Silpat mat and cut into rounds using floured scone cutter. Brush scones with milk, and bake for 15 minutes until golden. This is quite a sticky dough, but try to manage it without adding extra flour as this means a beautiful fluffy scone as the end result. (And don't we all want fluffy in our scone??)
More
Serve hot with the obligatory butter, lemon curd, jam, whipped cream or mascarpone.
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
