Scottish Potato Scones Recipe

How to make Scottish Potato Scones (AKA Tattie Scones)

Potato scones, or tattie scones as they are also known, are a firm fave in this house. When travelling we get a happy warm glow when we see a tattie scone with a full breakfast instead of a hash brown.  It’s a great way to use up leftover potatoes – potatoes that are ready to go bad, or ideal if you live somewhere where you can’t buy them!

Potato scone or tattie scone?

Both mean the same thing, tattie scone being the Scots for it.  It’s usually listed as potato scone on a menu but referred to as tattie scone when spoken.  Some people call them potato cakes

What is a potato scone?

A “tattie” is a “potato”, so these are scones made with potato.  It’s kind of like a potato pancake, rather than the scone you would normally see served with jam and cream.

How to serve potato scones?

Potato scones are  generally served alongside sausages, bacon, eggs and black pudding as part of a cooked breakfast, aka. a “fry-up”.  They can be fried or grilled.  I like them fried so they are crispy.  They are perfect on a morning roll (click here for a morning roll recipe), with a slice of bacon and a skoosh of sauce.

Where to find Potato Scones?

Scottish supermarkets sell them in the bread aisle.

Refrigerate as soon as they are made and fry them up later in a frying pan with some oil for a crispy exterior. These can be frozen however you may have to use wax sheets as they stick to each other very easily.

Ingredients

1 pound cooked potatoes
4 ounces self-rising flour
2 ounces butter

Method

Heat a lightly greased griddle or frying pan over medium-high heat.
Mash potatoes.
Add flour, butter and salt until a stiff dough forms.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface.
Knead the dough lightly and roll out to about 1/2-inch thick.
Use a scone cutter or a mug to cut out shapes, or work freehand.
Working in batches, cook scones, turning once on the hot griddle.

When you put them in the pan they’ll look like this:

But should soon look like this.

Voila, mmm!

Scottish potato scones recipe

Scottish potato scones recipe aka Tattie scones

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Course Breakfast, dinner, Snack

Cuisine scottish

Ingredients

  

• 1 pound cooked potatoes
• 4 ounces self-rising flour
• 2 ounces butter

Instructions

 

• Heat a lightly greased griddle or frying pan over medium-high heat.
• Mash potatoes.
• Add flour, butter and salt until a stiff dough forms.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface.
• Knead the dough lightly and roll out to about 1/2-inch thick.
• Use a scone cutter or a mug to cut out shapes, or work freehand.
• Working in batches, cook scones, turning once on the hot griddle.

Keyword breakfast, scottish breakfast

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