Aberdeen Butteries

Name: Aberdeen Butteries
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: 3 cups plain flour; 7g dried yeast; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp sugar; 1 cup warm water; 200g cold butter, grated; 50g cold lard, grated

Flaky, buttery Scottish breakfast rolls — crispier and more layered than croissants. Folding and rolling the dough with butter and lard multiple times builds the many thin layers that make butteries so flaky and crisp.

Total time

95 min

Prep

75 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Scottish

vegetarian

Ingredients

3 cupsplain flour

7gdried yeast

1 tspsalt

1 tspsugar

1 cupwarm water

200gcold butter, grated

50gcold lard, grated

Instructions

Mix flour, yeast, salt and sugar. Add water. Knead 8 minutes. Rest 30 minutes.

Roll out. Dot with half the butter and lard. Fold and roll again. Repeat.

Cut into rough oval shapes. Place on trays.

Rest 30 minutes.

Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes until golden and flaky.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

823

Protein

10.8g

Fat

54.1g

Carbs

73.6g

Fiber

Sodium

486mg

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