Let’s bake something easy and traditional! It could be nothing but Hungarian potato scone.
I have a sweet tooth, however, in autumn I prefer baking scones. In cool, rainy fall days, there’s nothing better than sitting in an armchair, looking out the window, drinking hot tea and eating warm, salty snaks.
I’ve tried a lot of recipes for years, but none of them looked like the pictures of the cookbooks. I’ve almost given up to find the perfect recipe when I hit on Husband’s granny’s recipe. I’ve never tried it before because I found it too simple and old-fashioned and according to Husband the real scone is made with cheese and not potato. Fair is fair, it is simple and old-fashioned, but better recipe you’ve never found.
Traditional Hungarian Potato Scone
Author: momwithfive
Recipe type: Salty Snack
Cuisine: Hungarian
Old-fashioned, traditional Hungarian recipe
Ingredients
- 3,5 cup boiled, mashed potato
- 11/10 cups soft butter
- 4 1/10 cups + 3 teaspoons flour
- 3 teaspoons salt
- 1 egg yolk
- ¼ cup fresh yeast
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 2/5 cup milk
- (1 egg to brush the top of each scone)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 C/365F.
- Butter or oil two flat trays and set them aside.
- Heat the milk until it is just lukewarm.
- Put in the milk 3 teaspoons flour, the sugar and fresh yeast. Set aside.
- Pure all the other ingredients in a food processor and last add to the mixture the milk and mix together until well combined.
- Put the dough on a floured work surface and cover it, and allow it to prove for about an hour until doubled in size.
- Knead the dough very lightly.
- Pat out to a round 1cm/2/5in thick. Use a 4cm/1,5in cutter to stamp out rounds and place on the prepared flat trays. Lightly knead together the rest of the dough and stamp out more scones to use it all up.
- Brush the tops of the scones with yolk.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden.
- Cool on a wire rack.
This looks good! And it does look similar to a potato. I can tell with the way it looks how yummy it is!
Hello Kareen,
Thanks for your kind words. It’s very easy to make and it is delicious. I can never make enough for my large family.
Have a nice day.
These sound so yummy! I think i’ll make them soon. Thank you for sharing!
Hello,
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll like it as much as we do.
Have a nice day.
I LOVE making homemade scones, but I’ve never made them with potato. These look great, I really need to try them!
Hi,
Thanks for commenting. It’s a must try recipe. I hope you’ll like it.
Have a nice day.
I have never tried making any type of scone before…this may be the recipe to try! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Hello Samantha,
Thanks for stopping by. It’s easy and very delicious. I hope you’ll like it.
Have a nice day.
i LOVE scones during autumn time! This recipe looks really yummy! I just made pumpkin cranberry scones this week that were to die for!
Hello Chelsie,
Thanks for stopping by. It’s very easy to make and it is delicious. I hope you’ll like it.
Have a nice day.
OH I LOVE LOVE LOVE authentic recipes! This looks so good. I can’t wait to try!
Hi Chissa,
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll like it.
Have a nice day.