Middleberry Scones ..........Click the Edit tab and select this entry to open the recipe.
Scones were popular in the last half of the nineteenth century, when baking powder became readily available. Perhaps that is why we associate them most with Victorian teatime. However, scones are almost exactly like biscuits--a simple quick bread that can be dressed up with spices and additions until they are quite extravagant. "Cinnamon and orange flavors are my favorite," Lisa Keys says. "I love the smell of my kitchen when these scones are baking. They are fragrant and special indeed, yet simple and quick." Cooks everywhere are thankful for the indispensable combination of sodium bicarbonate and acid salt--otherwise known as baking powder.
From "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.