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Default Scones : What should the texture be?

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Ranee at Arabian Knits > wrote:

> In article >, Arri London >
> wrote:


> > Never have I had a *flaky* biscuit all through the South. So no one down
> > there knows how to make a biscuit properly?

>
> Not to my taste! I ate biscuits in OK, and they weren't doughy
> either, but flaky, maybe heading toward crumbly. I haven't traveled
> extensively in the south, however. If doughy is a standard southern
> biscuit, then I wouldn't like it at all.


Flaky and crumbly sounds like 2-day-old biscuits. :-\
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