"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/28/2013 5:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2013-12-28 5:04 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>> It's that e that makes it a long o, if they wanted a short o,
>>>> leave off the e.
>>>
>>> Well, we said 'scons' and written they were scones
>>
>>
>>
>> My English grandmother used to make them and she called them 'scons' my
>> other grandmother, mostly Irish and Scottish made them and called them
>> scones. It is relatively recent that they started appearing in coffee
>> shops, usually very sweet and over iced and they call them 'scones'. I
>> always figured they were not British and/or had not been raised with
>> 'scons' so they just didn't know any better.
>
> Dialects very from place to place. Scons, scones. Once they left the
> British Isles scones wound up in coffee shops in North America. Probably
> right next to the doughnuts.
>
> The scones I remember were like a bit like buttermilk biscuits, except
> cream of tartar was involved. No currants, no raisins, no dried fruit of
> any kind. There was probably a pinch of sugar in the dough. Grandma
> shaped scones into triangles and baked them on a well greased cast iron
> griddle. I still have and use Grandma's cast iron griddle.

What you are describing sound like 'griddle scones' Btw I learned to say
'scons' growing up in Yorkshire

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