Cheese scones

by | Dec 6, 2016 | Breads, buns & biscuits

Cheese scones are the most popular pogácsa in Hungary. Pogácsa is a simple and delicious snack food, which is generally one of the first things to be served at dinner parties and get-togethers. Those bite-sized biscuits are dense and doughy in the center, but crispy outside. Hungarian pogácsa is always made from a yeast dough, baking powder scones are not so widespread.

My cheese scones are dead easy to make and stay soft for 1-2 days due to the large amount of butter and sour cream. After kneading the dough spends a night in the fridge, the next day I just roll it out, cut out the scones and bake them.

There’s no need to overwork the dough, just quickly bring it together; the less you handle scone dough, the better. The secret of well-risen scones is not to roll out the dough too thinly, start off with a thickness not less than 3/4 inch. Concerning cheese you can use almost anything that is hard enough to grate.

Cheese scones
Cheese scones – photo: zserbo.com
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Hungarian cottage cheese

This is what Hungarian túró looks like

You often ask me what kind of cottage cheese (or curd cheese or farmer's cheese - call it what you want) I use in the recipes. In Hungary the store-bought cottage cheese is dry and crumbly as you can see in the picture. So if a recipe calls for túró, I mean this type. If you can't obtain túró, you can try to make your own from whole milk. Click on the link below.

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In Hungary metric units are in use, all the recipes on this website are based on this system, so a kitchen scale is necessary. Since I’m not familiar with cup as a measurement unit, I convert grams to cups by using an online converter. The values in brackets, therefore, are only approximate volumes, so, please, double-check them before you start cooking.

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