Anonymous
Post 10/03/2019 08:06     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
The American scones I like (praline from Bayou Bakery, coconut pecan from Best Buns, and before Breadline was bought out, their ginger-cherry) don't lend themselves to the cream and jam treatment because they're already sweet and flavored.

When I make scones at home, I use this recipe:
https://www.foodwine.com/food/pasta/2000/0600/scones.html

A PP posted something like this, but with way more sugar and too much dried fruit.
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2019 07:41     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Going by this thread, they're a subpar pastry used as a vessel to humble brag about how well-traveled you are. lol


Just getting caught up in this thread - don't let the insecure travelers scare you away from scones. They are delicious! I just had the best scone of my life at 'Livin' the Pie Life' in Arlington! The only place I've ever had a scone (outside of my kitchen) is at a bakery. I wouldn't trust a scone from a grocery store shelf - sounds gross and full of preservatives.

Team Scone!



I’m a very adventurous traveler and omnivore. Most scones outside of Britain just suck. A few in Britain are survivable. There are probably some moist and delicious ones to be had in the States, but I haven’t found them.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 13:04     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Anonymous wrote:Going by this thread, they're a subpar pastry used as a vessel to humble brag about how well-traveled you are. lol


Just getting caught up in this thread - don't let the insecure travelers scare you away from scones. They are delicious! I just had the best scone of my life at 'Livin' the Pie Life' in Arlington! The only place I've ever had a scone (outside of my kitchen) is at a bakery. I wouldn't trust a scone from a grocery store shelf - sounds gross and full of preservatives.

Team Scone!

Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 12:06     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Going by this thread, they're a subpar pastry used as a vessel to humble brag about how well-traveled you are. lol
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 12:04     Subject: Re:Does anyone actually like scones?
I had what I'd bet is considered a great scone today from a terrific local bakery. I was wholly unimpressed. Way too many calories for something so totally unsatisfying.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 11:53     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
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?


I also find them to be dry biscuits with the various mix-ins not helping much. Unfortunately, they are a good friend’s “specialty” and she constantly serves them or gifts them.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 11:47     Subject: Re:Does anyone actually like scones?
Find or make maple scones. They're very un-scone like.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 11:45     Subject: Re:Does anyone actually like scones?
If I'm going to eat 400-500 empty calories, I'd rather have a good fresh French pastry.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 11:03     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
“Pudding” can be generally used as a synonym for dessert. But also for a specific type of dessert, which is nothing like American pudding which is more what Brits would consider custard.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 10:02     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Well, watched another episode of GBBS, and it was pudding! Except it is not pudding, it is cake with some jelly. Russian contestant left, she likely had no idea what this was, just like I didn't. There was no pudding in sight!
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2019 09:58     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Anonymous wrote:I love a good scone. I hate a bad scone. Most scones you can get at Starbucks or the grocery store are bad scones.


This. They don't stay fresh long, either. You really need to make them yourself or get them at a bakery the day they are made. Forget the ones at a grocery store or Starbucks. Hockey pucks, for sure!
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2019 15:23     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
I am on team scones.

American scones are terrible. European scones are unbelievably delicious.

Most recently in Ireland, you could literally stop at a gas station and get unbelievable, fresh scones that are far superior to anything I have had here. Same for England.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2019 14:28     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


English scone = American biscuit
English biscuit = American cookie
English flapjack = American variation of coffee cake
American pancakes (sometimes called flapjacks) = English what?
Starbucks scone = hockey puck!


You're right, except American biscuits traditionally involve lard or shortening along with milk or buttermilk and baking power (the upper midwest version I grew up with did not use buttermilk--and I faintly remember eating them sometimes with Karo white syrup, probably a holdover from my mother's Depression farm childhood).

It would have been fun if your list had at some point managed to loop around--but the explanation of English flapjacks was new to me!
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2019 14:16     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
I am not the previous CI cream scone poster but I have regularly made these cream scones published in Bon Appetit years ago. Easy, solid recipe that lends itself well to substitutions to change up the flavor. If you want cream scones this is a good choice.

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/lemon-cream-scones-1923/amp
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2019 10:14     Subject: Does anyone actually like scones?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Cook’s Illustrated cream scones are so worth making. They’re wonderful! I make them at least once a month. More in the fall and winter and always on snow days.

If you’d share this recipe, we’d be forever grateful.

Yes, please share! I will make them a snow day tradition if you do! (If we ever get snow again here)