Does anyone actually like scones?

[Anonymous]

Aren’t big scones at Starbucks and Panera like 450 calories each?

[Anonymous]

OP, are you getting your scones from Starbucks and places like that? If so, then you aren't really eating a good scone (in fact, none of Starbucks' bakery items are that great.) A homemade scone is delicious! My oatmeal scones are heavenly (I make mine half the size, so they are only 150 calories each.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m open-minded, please tell me what if anything I’m missing about scones. I drink coffee or tea daily, sometimes both. Scones are just dry biscuits, usually with fruit in it? You have to take a bite and gulp it with coffee to get it down. They look pretty and elegant, but they’re gross, right? Are they just carried at every coffee shop and bakery because you can’t really tell when they’re stale - dry is dry?

Are you in Anerica? If so, that is the reason they are awful. In the UK they are divine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love a good scone with clotted cream and jam. Now whether to eat them Devonshire or Cornish is a whole other issue.

Devon all the way. Damn it, now I am dying for a good scone, done properly.

American scones aren't good. British ones with clotted cream and jam? Holy cow.

I'm American but DH is British.

I'm the PP above who lived in England as a kid (and prefers them Devonshire-style), and have had a few good scones here. They have all come from small, local bakeries (in one case, where the head baker was British). No mass-produced crap.

Where can I find this good bakery? I would love to try a real scone, Devonshire or Cornish.

England?

[Anonymous]

Good ones are amazing!

[Anonymous]

We hunt scones in England the way we hunt gelato in Italy. YUM.

[Anonymous]

If you have not tried Julia Child’s buttermilk scones, you have not tasted a scone. Unreal.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a connoisseur, but I like the ones at the Wydown. I also like to make them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you think they're just dry biscuits, you've not had a good one. I *love* scones and, done well, they're not dry or gross at all. Fresh is best. I'm biased since I spent a ton of time in England as a kid and have had really, really great scones. A hot, fresh scone with clotted cream and jam is pure heaven!

+1. But agree with you OP that Starbucks scones are not “pure heaven” material and also don’t see their appeal.

[Anonymous]

A proper scone is lovely, plain is fine or Devonshire for a treat.

The “scones” at Starbucks, Panera, etc. are not “bad scones” exactly because they simply aren’t scones. They’re maybe a sort of odd-shaped dry muffin or cake...I’m not sure what, but definitely not real scones. Especially if they come with frosting.

[Anonymous]

I had one from great harvest and they're good. Not dry at all. But, where do you buy clotted cream? Which grocery section is it in?

[Anonymous]

I’m British, and this discussion is confusing to me because I had thought that the things called scones here were just an entirely different baked good to the English scones I’m used to. Not trying to be like an English scone, just a totally different thing. Like what you call biscuit and what I call biscuit are completely different and not trying to be the same thing at all. Actually, now I think about it, an American biscuit is probably closer to an english scone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m British, and this discussion is confusing to me because I had thought that the things called scones here were just an entirely different baked good to the English scones I’m used to. Not trying to be like an English scone, just a totally different thing. Like what you call biscuit and what I call biscuit are completely different and not trying to be the same thing at all. Actually, now I think about it, an American biscuit is probably closer to an english scone.

I get what you mean about biscuits, but I think American "scones" are trying to be like British scones, just poorly executed. American biscuits, while more similar to British scones, aren't used in the same way at all.

[Anonymous]

Sour Cherry Scones

2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 Tablespoons butter
1 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1.5 cups dried cherries

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork. Combine vanilla and cream and mix into dry until just moistened. Fold in cherries. Drop onto parchment papered cookie sheets. Sprinkle with pearl sugar or sugar sprinkles. Bake for 14-18 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Dean and Deluca had cherry scones that were to die for.