On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:07:25 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

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>It Wuznie Me wrote:
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>> I remember eating Scottish scones in Scotland. Unlike the scones in
>> England, these were wedge shaped and, I believe, not as sweet. They
>> were thick enough to be split in half and we ate them with butter and
>> jam as with the English ones. Does anyone else remembere them?
>
>My mother and both my grandmothers baked scones. I don't remember them
>being sweet. They often put raisins or currants in them, and we add them
>with butter and jam, or with whipped cream. I occasionally buy a scone in
>coffee shops, but I find them terribly sweet, not at all like the scones
>I grew up on.
>
I dislike grocery store and coffee shop scones intensely. You might
as well suck on a sugar cube. We used to have a place down the street
that made fabulous scones, some of them were *not* common, like the
jalapeno flavor.

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