When I was looking for the cactus photographs I used in the first post of the day (this is the 3rd!) I found some photographs I’d forgotten about.
We went to Springfields while we were off for the week. While we were there we bought turmeric capsules, criticised the bookshop stock and looked in the craft shop (well, one of us did, the other sat and watched the ducks in the water feature).
While Julia was looking at other stuff, I sat in the cafe and waited. Patiently. It’s a skill I have developed over 30 years of marriage. It’s a lot like sleeping with your eyes open. Or sleeping with your eyes open and nodding your head in time with the conversation. All useful skills for a married man.
Anyway, when Julia returned she get us scones and tea from the counter.
They were surprisingly good. We tested the fruit scone and the cheese scone – both had good open texture and good flavour. They were well up with the top scones, though the shape of the fruit scone was ather alarming. That is, partly, what happens when you twist the cutter when you cut the scone out.
This is part of the same group that made me the worst fish and chips ever, so I was surprised.
Unfortunately, there was food trapped under the glass top of the table, so there is still oom for improvement.
Trapped food – lovely!
Now I remember I was going to do the write-up about Brierlow Bar…
The scones do look good!
To be fair, they were good.
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I like the eccentric scone. I know just how it felt.
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Wait – so you roll them out and then cut “scons?” This, my friend, is a biscuit!
Roll them? You press them gently by hand…
You can also cut them into triangles.
Ah, gotcha.
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I am glad to hear the scones were good!
🙂 If you eat lots of them some are bound to be good!
Despite the funny shape, the texture looks lovely, and they are tall rather than squashed, the way mine were. Do you suppose they use tall tin cutters to make them? I’m going to give scones another go today. Wish me luck!
Good luck! I think it was a question of twisting in cutting (you could see it in real life but not on photos) and a very good rise.
Glad you found the earlier photos, and I like the look of the scones. Our local pub is vastly improved under its latest management – yet it is part of a group, one member of which we would never enter again.
It’s strange how they can be so different, isn’t it. Good to know the local one is good.
Alarming indeed! I would have chosen the cheese scone.
Sometimes we food reviewers have to make these sacrifices…