The great scon con

[caddyman]

To compound my earlier dietary forays, I have now eaten scones¹. With butter. Maybe later I shall eat more with clotted cream and strawberry jam.

I have my Remagel tablets at the ready.


¹The ones I eat rhyme with stone, cone and phone. They're better than those that rhyme eponymously with con.

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[davidt3001.livejournal.com]

As American essays at the scone -- which rhymes with gone, one and Tron -- range between dismal and toxic, I make my own. I also explain tirelessly that they are meant to be fluffy, only slightly sweet (unless they contain cheese, in which case they shouldn't be sweet at all), and that a two inch diameter is as large as they should go. They definitely should not be the size and texture of a half brick.

It is curious that Americans can't make scones because they have the the mis-named biscuit. This item (from the South, apparently) is very close to a scone, although slightly fluffier and shortened with lard, rather than butter. It's great with a hunk of breakfast sausage.