Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, rich, biscuitlike pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- noun Utah Yeast bread dough, deep-fried and served with honey and butter or with a savory filling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
stone . - noun A soft cake (resembling the biscuit of the United States, but of various shapes and sizes) made from dough of barley-meal or of wheat-flour, raised with bicarbonate of soda or with yeast, and “fired” on a griddle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
small ,rich ,pastry orquick bread , sometimesbaked on agriddle - noun Utah
frybread served with honey butter spread on the cooked bread - verb Australia, NZ To hit, especially on the head.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Inviting someone over for a cup of tea and a scone is a great motivation to getting something done in a reasonable amount of time.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Inviting someone over for a cup of tea and a scone is a great motivation to getting something done in a reasonable amount of time.
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The origin of the name 'scone' is just as unclear as where it came from.
Soy Scone Recipe Steve Carper 2007
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The origin of the name 'scone' is just as unclear as where it came from.
Archive 2007-08-01 Steve Carper 2007
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The scone is a fairly basic vanilla scone, dropped in slightly flatten balls on the baking sheet to look more like cookies than scones that were rolled out and cut.
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The traditional method for making a scone is to cut cold butter into a flour mixture, much like making biscuits or pie crust.
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The traditional method for making a scone is to cut cold butter into a flour mixture, much like making biscuits or pie crust.
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A scone is much closer to a cookie than a piece of custardy french toast, after all!
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A scone is much closer to a cookie than a piece of custardy french toast, after all!
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The scone is a fairly basic vanilla scone, dropped in slightly flatten balls on the baking sheet to look more like cookies than scones that were rolled out and cut.
kimberk commented on the word scone
Here's a recipe at http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/scones_1285.shtml
Tradiitonal English afternoon tea, have a scone with butter, jam and clotted cream in Cornwall and Devon, UK :-) lovely
June 24, 2009