DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Aberdeen buttery
Also known as: Aberdeen rowie
Flaky salted rolls made by folding butter and lard into yeast dough.
About Aberdeen buttery
Phil and Sonja present these Aberdeen butteries, also called rowies, through their research into Scottish cookbooks and baking practice. Their rendition retains the familiar combination of yeast dough, butter and lard.
Strong bread flour forms the dough, with water, sugar and salt. Repeated rolling and folding spread the beaten butter-and-lard mixture through it, building the layers that give the rolls their flaky texture.
The dough is divided into rounds and baked golden. The authors enjoy the rolls warm after a little cooling, served plain or with jam; additional butter is another offered accompaniment.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Aberdeen buttery
Phil and Sonja's Aberdeen butteries with butter and lard.
- Strong bread flourBase
- Dried yeastBase
- Caster sugarSweetener
- SaltSeasoning
- ButterBase
- LardBase
- WaterLiquid
- Flour for kneading, rolling and tray dustingCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- JamAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Strong bread flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual52/105 conventional strong wheat bread flour, Wheat definite.
- Dried yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Caster sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual56/109 laminating mix, optional extra serving butter76/128 consolidated; Milk definite.
- Lard: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual57/110 ordinary British baking lard, pork-fat identity, not generic manteca or vegetable shortening.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Flour for kneading, rolling and tray dusting: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual59/64/67/72/112 unqualified extra flour, exact cereal not expressly specified for this separate allocation; no invented wheat mapping.
- Jam (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual76/79/128 optional, fruit/full prepared formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- United Kingdom
- United KingdomCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Aberdonian Cuisine
- Scottish cuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.