Saturday, January 13, 2007
These are fabulous scones. I could probably spend a lifetime alternating between Rose's two scone recipes in The Bread Bible, trying to make up my mind which one I prefer. This may be a worthy goal, although a greedy one. As an aside, a group of women at work were sitting around at lunch trying to decide at what age they could simply let themselves go and eat whatever they wanted. The younger ones thought that they could throw caution to the winds at 60. The older ones, including me, were more inclined to think of an age like 80. If I ever hit that age, it would be just the time to do alternate scone-testing weeks.
I made these scones once before, back in March of 2006, when we were vacationing in St. John. At our condo in St. John, we had limited cooking facilities. I didn't have anything to whip the cream with and I didn't have baking sheets and the oven was tiny and its temperature was off by about 100 degrees. Still, as Jim reminded me, although the scones may have been inferior in St. John, we ate them as we looked out over the Caribbean in balmy 70-degree weather, and our friendly pair of pearly-eyed thrashers gobbled up the crumbs. In Minnesota today, the high was ten degrees. So there are always trade-offs.
3 comments:
Marie, The scones look super. I think you can open Ye Olde Worlde Tea Shoppe of Minneapolis with those. More tea, Vicar? Cheers, Melinda
Melinda,
Good idea. We were once convinced to buy a rather expensive bottle of wine by this pitch: "You can serve it when the bishop comes for dinner." Now you're promising me the vicar. It's hard to resist. (The wine is long gone, by the way, but the bishop never came to call).
Marie,
I had fun reading your post. I wish I could eat whatever I want, too. That would be great, indeed. :D
These scones look so good!
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