> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:07:25 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> It Wuznie Me wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
LOL Leave it to Californians to put jalapenos in scones!