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News & ArtsTuesday, November 8, 2011
At Large It's a Fucking Cookie
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Seriously, coffee shop.
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Looks like a traditional scone to me, not like those triangles you get at Starbucks which are more cake-y than quick bread-y.
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Although I suppose those triangles aren't really cake-y at all, but they're certainly a different consistency from the thicker, rougher texture of more traditional scones.
Naturally, my sleep-deprived state makes me an authority on all things sconish.
Naturally, my sleep-deprived state makes me an authority on all things sconish.
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That is a bad shot. Buy the thing and get some profile shots, cut it in half and what-not. BTW Utah has the best scones in the world (or in their case worlds),
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i'm not a fan of scones, either...i worked in a deli with a woman whose baked goods were out of this world. she was profiled multiple times in Gourmet magazine. her cheesecake could bring you to tears. and even HER scones were dry old hunks of boring bread. i don't think i've ever had a scone i enjoyed.
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that's because Americans eat scones the wrong way ;-).
The idea is to have fresh scones and eat them with marmelade at tea time.
(That said, I've actually had good rich, American scones.)
The idea is to have fresh scones and eat them with marmelade at tea time.
(That said, I've actually had good rich, American scones.)
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The only scones worth eating come filled with butter and raspberry jam from the Fishers booth at the Puyallup Fair.
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I make wonderful scones. They are moist and flavorful and appealing. I expect you all over at tea time to partake.
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The dryness of a scone is a feature, not a bug. Like a cream cracker, it's meant to be eaten with your tea (not coffee), with butter and jam on it. It should be hard, flaky, powdery dry and as much salty as sweet (but a little of both). A "moist" scone makes no sense. I've never seen a half-decent one in the US. Most US scones are just defectively made sweet cakey biscuits. A scone is not cakey. The thing in the picture is not a scone.
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It looks like what was floating around in the toilet after I took my dump this morning. And I DID have walnuts last night.
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@ 16, you need to find a place that does a good high tea. They do exist in America... (Not at the Olympic Hotel, though, so don't try there.)
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@20, I think you mean "afternoon tea". "High tea" just means "working class dinner". Certainly won't be any scones present. If it's in a hotel, or the Queen Mary Tea Room on NE 55th St, it's afternoon tea.
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I always heard it called "high tea," but I won't nitpick - you got my drift. And it's been a while but I'm pretty sure I've had scones at it. I could be dreaming, though.
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The best scones in Washington are at Bailey's Bakery in Nahcotta on the Long Beach Peninsula. I feel strongly enough about this to make my first ever Slog comment.
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There's very little separating a scone from a cookie, but the differences are nevertheless significant and they have more to do with the amount of leavening and liquid than with whether they have chocolate chips, walnuts, or whatever. It may be safer to say that like gender, cookies and scone are not rigid categories, but rather to stops along a continuum between flat and crispy on the one side and puffy and cakey on the other.
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@22 I work at the Queen Mary and it's hilarious when people call to make reservations for high tea. I don't correct them, since it's a common misconception, but they freak out when I call it afternoon tea. Then again, our customer base is primarily rich housewives from Bellevue, so...
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Samktg: had you made it to bed at a decent hour you would recall that there are two equally scony types of scone. There's the Siren's Triangle you reference, which are cut scones. The one in the pic are drop scones.
A scone that's leaning toward cookie can be OK, but a cookie that's almost like a scone is gross.
A scone that's leaning toward cookie can be OK, but a cookie that's almost like a scone is gross.
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@28, I've been to the QM twice, and both times the place was packed to the walls with little girls having a birthday party, fifteen or twenty of them, all in tiaras, practicing their ridiculous hoity-toity English accents and squealing. Quite charming.
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Can we stop putting walnuts in baked goods, please? They are not welcome there. Seriously people, just... stop.
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@32, I beg leave to disagree. They're great in cookies. And I had a walnut baguette the other night from Macrina that was scrum-diddly-umptious (even if the walnuts or some other mysterious ingredient turned the loaf purple inside). Now that I think of it, walnuts are pretty great in everything.
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@32 I'm with you, man. Walnuts or other nuts are texture-disrupting-bitter-tannins-blech-flavor-vacuoles
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