Scone whole or halved? Clotted or whipped? (Definitely not that skooshy aerosol stuff) Cream with jam on top or vicky- vercka? Scone pronounced like stone or like gone? Swift could have had another bellicose chapter for Lemuuel to visit.
My mother's scones were very popular at the bowls club. I don't recall the type of cream, not aerosol, probably just thick cream. Homemade jams, plum, raspberry, Damson, blackberry and apple. The blackberry and apple was often a seedless jelly, strained through a muslin (interesting autocorrect suggestion there) cloth. It was one thing the old boys loved, eating the things which they weren't allowed at home. Mum liked making scones, she said that it was a good way to use up the club's milk which was getting close to sour. Apparently it's good for scones (pronounced stones, or scines if they're trying to be posh). Pronouncing some words became a subject of discussion with my older sister, probably because Mum was Bucks and Dad was Lincs. I couldn't answer Doonhammer's question as I've only got my sister's word for it.
No bowls this summer. No convivial meals with post match chunter, oh and a pint or two. No meeting old friends, maybe for the last time. There's hardly a soul in this country who is not asking WHY?
Plain scones or sultana-ed? Cause of many an argument too.
Clotted cream, else I'm not playing. Scone halved, cream on next to waterproof the base, then strawberry jam piled high. (Jam first and the cream slides off) Nice pot of breakfast blend tea to go with 'em. Slurp, slurp, drool.
Scone whole or halved?
ReplyDeleteClotted or whipped? (Definitely not that skooshy aerosol stuff)
Cream with jam on top or vicky- vercka?
Scone pronounced like stone or like gone?
Swift could have had another bellicose chapter for Lemuuel to visit.
My mother's scones were very popular at the bowls club. I don't recall the type of cream, not aerosol, probably just thick cream. Homemade jams, plum, raspberry, Damson, blackberry and apple. The blackberry and apple was often a seedless jelly, strained through a muslin (interesting autocorrect suggestion there) cloth. It was one thing the old boys loved, eating the things which they weren't allowed at home. Mum liked making scones, she said that it was a good way to use up the club's milk which was getting close to sour. Apparently it's good for scones (pronounced stones, or scines if they're trying to be posh). Pronouncing some words became a subject of discussion with my older sister, probably because Mum was Bucks and Dad was Lincs. I couldn't answer Doonhammer's question as I've only got my sister's word for it.
ReplyDeleteNo bowls this summer. No convivial meals with post match chunter, oh and a pint or two. No meeting old friends, maybe for the last time. There's hardly a soul in this country who is not asking WHY?
The vicissitudes of cream teas and cakes.
ReplyDeleteStones and gone in our house.
ReplyDeletePlain scones or sultana-ed? Cause of many an argument too.
Clotted cream, else I'm not playing.
Scone halved, cream on next to waterproof the base, then strawberry jam piled high. (Jam first and the cream slides off) Nice pot of breakfast blend tea to go with 'em. Slurp, slurp, drool.