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Scones: my other favorite baked good (and updates, too)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
I have a confession to make. Cupcakes aren’t the only baked good that occupies the top of my mind. I’m in love with scones.
Yes, scones. If cupcakes are quintessentially American in my mind (ebullient, expressive, verging on over-the-top, sweet), scones are so English. They’re understated, but have a biting wit, and takes some maturity to appreciate.
I would get really frustrated because it’s so hard to find good scones in Manila. French Baker used to have halfway decent ones (with walnuts!) when I was still in high school. The now-defunct Struan and Tang (the place that taught me to love tea just as much as coffee) had passable ones. The scones at Starbucks are too fricking dry. Scones, as Nigella Lawson so rightly puts it, are supposed to be solid-looking but light. (She should know–she is the British Domestic Goddess after all.)
Well, if you can’t find them, why not make them?
Oddly enough, I’ve never tried making scones myself–I found myself intimidated by all the recipes I found for scones. Even Nigella Lawson’s. I just felt like I wasn’t worthy–nor nowhere near English enough–to try making such a quintessentially British quickbread.
It was serendipity that led me to Jenny Wallum (who has letters after her name! She’s really Jennifer Wallum, MBE), who encouraged me by sharing her very simple basic scone recipe–simple enough for me to remember without writing it down!
And here is the fruit of that meeting–spiced scones that hit the spot for me. They’re still not the “perfect scone,” but I finally got a glimpse of what Nigella Lawson meant: these are solid-looking (almost peasant-like), but heavenly. To Jenny’s recipe, I added a few dashes of ground cinnamon, ginger, nutmed, and cloves.
It was also Jenny who suggested trying scones with kesong puti. Though scones are traditionally served in the UK with clotted cream and blackberry jam, some Brits have their own idiosyncratic preferences when it comes to their scones. Jenny, who has lived in the Philippines for more than a decade, suggested the kesong puti-scone combination to me. And I must agree–it’s wonderful. With the spiced scones I made, the light tartness of the kesong puti was the perfect foil to the sweet, fragrant spices. I washed everything down with a robust English Breakfast tea, with some milk and sugar mixed in.
Some Updates:
I have yet to adjust to my new teaching schedule, though I’m really happy to be back teaching again. Oh, and balancing teaching and this is challenging as well, but I enjoy both teaching and baking, so it’s not really a pain, and the stress is definitely worth it. 
Some photos of recent orders:
cupcakes as wedding favors–I love the rust-orange theme of this wedding, sunset colors.
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