On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:50:18 +1000, Richard Bollard
> wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:02:55 +0100, Mike Lyle
> wrote:
[...]
>>
>>But mark the "etc". Aus and other scones may be plain: you use these
>>much like bread. And they can be either separate small ones or one
>>bigger round marked into triangles (I think an American reader
>>mentioned triangles, too).
>>
>>As I've mentioned before, accidental experience reveals that
>>overcooking Brit-type plain scones results in something not at all
>>unlike a plain biscuit, so it's easy to understand the AmE usage.
>
>WIWAL, if we ran out of bread for school lunch, my mother would bake a
>"scone loaf", which we would use instead. It wasn't sweetened and used
>the same scone dough as normal scones but was loafed instead of
>bunned.

Yes, that's one of my family memes, too, except that my mother never
baked it in a loaf tin. I do it myself sometimes, too: delicious
straight out of the oven. There's soda bread, of course...

--
Mike.