Luckily, I have temporarily relocated to Northampton, MA, which is not quite so sticky. Today's Tuesdays With Dorie project, Apple Cheddar Scones, is brought to you from my parents' newly retiled kitchen.
These scones are so sticky that I used the option Dorie included and treated them more like drop biscuits, which the recipe resembles anyway (more butter, less cream). Longer meditation on the differences between a biscuit and a scone is clearly needed. I noted an Australian blogger on the TWD blogroll pondering just that, but her cultural equations just threw me into deeper confusion. The dough is simple, a mix of all-purpose flour and cornmeal, leavened with baking soda and baking powder, lightly sugared and salted, butter rubbed in, buttermilk, egg and apple cider mixed in, and diced apple (I used fresh instead of the recommended dried) and grated cheddar (or Cheddar Jack pregrated mix) mixed in. The whole is then just scooped onto a baking sheet and is in the oven now, smelling good.
Seriously though, how is this not a biscuit?
9 comments:
Whatever the name, they look (and are) quite tasty!
Definitely a type of bisuit for sure. We loved ours and yours look so yummy, too.
These where definitely sticky. Your scones look delicious!
In the U.S., the basic recipe can be the same, but we tend to call sweet ones scones and savory ones biscuits.
So, you're right, no real difference.
Rebecca
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They are sticky, that's for sure.
I think they are worth a hot kitchen for a day.
When the kids asked me what scones were I told them they were like biscuits, so I don't really know the difference either. They look great piled in that basket!
I think of scones as being like sweet biscuits, myself. Sweet biscuits with yummy stuff added in.
Yours look great!
Scones or biscuits. Whatever. As long as they are tasty!
Biscuit or scone, no matter, just call them delicious!
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