Cheese and Wild Garlic Scones are full of flavour and perfect to serve with soup as an alternative to bread. Or simply butter and enjoy with a cup of tea.
What is Wild Garlic?
Wild Garlic is also known as Ransoms and is a leafy plant which appears in spring. You can eat the young leaves and the flowers which both have a pungent smell of garlic but are mild in flavour.
It’s best to pick the leaves when they are young before the flowers start to bloom. Later in the season, the wild garlic leaves become tough.
Why Cheese and Wild Garlic Scones?
Scones are a really good vehicle for all sorts of flavours both sweet and savoury. Cheese scones are a classic savoury bake, cheese and onion is a great combination and wild garlic is part of the union family.
Tips for making great scones
- Rub the butter or margarine thoroughly into the flour, the result should look like fine breadcrumbs
- Do not overmix. Gently bring together the mixture and pat it into a thick round before cutting out the sconces.
- Do not twist your scone cutter, this seals the edges of the dough and stops it rising
- Practice makes perfect, my husband started to make scones and it took him three batches before he perfected his bake.
More Wild Garlic Recipes from Farmersgirl Kitchen
Enjoy a delicious bowl of Wild Garlic, Ham and Pea Chowder with your Cheese and Wild Garlic Scones.
New Potatoes in Wild Garlic and Lemon Dressing is the perfect marriage of Spring seasonal produce.
Wild Garlic Pesto also freezes well, spoon it over pasta for a quick and easy sauce.
More Wild Garlic Recipes
Wild Garlic Pesto Pinwheels – Foodie Quine
Wild Garlic Chicken Kiev – Hedgecombers
Wild Garlic Miso Sauce with Soba Noodles – Kellie’s Food to Glow
Cheese and Wild Garlic Scones
Ingredients
- 225 g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 50 g butter
- 100 g finely grated cheese
- 30 g wild garlic leaves finely chopped
- 1 tsp dry mustard
- 1/4 tsp salt
- freshly ground pepper
- 1 egg
- milk
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 200C
- Mix the flour and baking powder and rub in the butter until it looks like breadcrumbs.
- Stir in the cheese and the finely chopped wild garlic leaves.
- Beat the egg in a bowl and add to the mixture, add enough milk to bring it together into a soft dough.
- Dust your work surface with flour and gently pat the dough into a round about 2 cm thick, cut out your scones.
- Place on a greased and floured baking tray, brush the tops with a little milk.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until the scones are golden brown.
- Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
I must hunt some more wild garlic down and make these! Yum!
Let me know if you do, I'd love to see them.
I love wild garlic and this looks like an amazing way to put it to use.
Katie xoxo
Thanks Katie, we really enjoyed these scones.
These look fantastic! I can imagine how great they would be with loads of butter 😀
Oh yes, Helen loads of butter 😉
We love wild garlic and stuff it anything we can. My mothers garden is absolutely laden with it at the moment which means far more visits. Although it also means she'll get to try one of these beauties once we've had a chance to make them 🙂
Free food is always such a bonus, Anita-Clare. I hope your mother enjoys the scones.
I LOVE wild garlic and about 2 years ago, or even last year, I was so obsessed with it that I used it in ALL my cooking and baking! 🙂 These scones look delicious, and thanks for linking them to Cooking with Herbs! Karen
I think it's the short season that makes us become a bit obsessed by it, Karen.
I love garlic and these look fabulous!
Thanks Sarah
nice ingredients mixture
Thank you
Oh I wish I could find some wild garlic round here! Been on the look out for two seasons now to no avail, used to have a garden full of it in France. Your scones look totally scrumptious, love a cheesy scone!
Thanks Lou. Maybe chives would be a good substitute?
I always prefer savoury scones to sweet, these look great. I wish I knew where to get wild garlic near Walthamstow!
Aw thanks Sarah, pity you don't have any wild garlic, we have so much here.
oh so good!… as you know I have a whole batch of WG growing near by. I shall adore making these! x
Thanks Dom, I'm sure you will love them, just don't breathe all over your eyelash peeps!
I love the sound of savoury scones, I must get my hands on wild garlic , I love the sound of foraging but sadly can't do it here in London …
These look so lovely and delicious, they would be perfect with a lovely salad for lunch.
Ooh so yummy and I love the idea of having them with soup. Fab recipe. Sammie
Thanks Sammie, I love scones.
Just made the scones and they are delicious Thank you I have loads of garlic and didn’t want to waste it
Oh that’s great, Jenny. Thanks for letting me know, glad you enjoyed them.
Just made these and these were delicious didn’t make full quantity so had slighter higher mustard as didn’t calculate correctly it worked. They are really savoury tasting which is lovely. they were really light used water as didn’t have milk and full egg on lesser ingredients but it worked. Thanks for the recipe.
Thanks for letting me know, I’m glad you were able to adapt the recipe and make it work for you.
Oh Janice, I am SOLD!!! I am way more savoury than sweet toothed, and these little beauties would hot the spot just perfectly!
Thank you so much Janey. I know you make some lovely wild garlic recipes yourself, so your comment is much appreciated.