Scones..eggs, baking powder or not?

[Kezz]

scone which rhymes with moan is what 'common' people say!

I'm common then the one that ryhmes with "gone" is what t'posh toffs say

[battybird]

Scones...scons...I alternate with what I call them!! Obviously I am sometimes posh and sometimes common!! I cannot even work out when or why I change it!! Maybe when served with jam and cream, I feel they should be "posh" with butter they can be "common"

[Millymollymandy]

I do think it's a bit more of a north/south thing rather than a posh/common one.

[Millymollymandy]

with butter they can be "common"

Nooooooo that'd have to be marge. Posh people eat butter.

[oldjerry]

I've always suspected that we ,the unwashed underclass eat all the best food.Scones,scons scoons whatever, and butter,not bad,but give me toast and dripping any day of the week...not to mention fried bread!

[jim]

Dear Oldjerry,

Dripping toast! Fried bread! I can feel the aorta furring up with delight at the mere mention .... unfortunately I can also hear the tutting when Sister Wilson measures my cholesterol in a few months time ..... but they can't touch you for phantasizing can they?

I asked about the pronounciation because my Gaeltact Granny said it to rhyme with gone wheras the English side of the family would use the version to rhyme with moan. Granny defended her pronounciation because she said SGON was the Celtic [ethnic not football] original. Any Gaelic speakers want to comment?

Love and Peace
Jim

[Jessiebean]

zmmm scones, I am supposed to be making dhal and naan for dinner but now I just want scones (pronounced to rhyme with gone, no eggs and cut with a round cutter!)Do you know what- it has NEVER occured to me to make scones any shape other than round.. and I like to think I think outside the box most of the time... sheesh what an eye opener .. imagine a scone made with eggs and not round....I am in shock... also hungry. I am not a snob necessarily but it seems that I am just set in my scone ways.
By the by, one thing I find heinous is when people use lemonade instead of milk "to make their scones light" ... is that just an Aussie thing?

[Millymollymandy]

Lemonade? Never heard of it! I guess we're all set in our scone ways though.

[Jessiebean]

Well MMM I would NOT recommend a purist such as yourself try the lemonade scones, they are way too fluffy and sweet with no substance- like the sort of scone McD*n@lds would make :P

[Millymollymandy]

They make good chocolate brownies though (the only thing I'll eat in there!).