On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:54:41 -0400, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>> 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!
>
Hey, we had the regular stuff too.
<sniffle>

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