Postcards From France

Scones for Morning Tea

Hello all,

I am sorry it has taken so long to get a note to you all, since Jo has left to return to full-time marketing - her first love, I have been running at high speed trying to get a book underway, scan and update all my NEXT photos to the website so more recipes have pictures and plan a year overseas... more on that exciting news later.

I wonder how many of you are regular café latte or cappuccino drinkers each day and whether or not you have a muffin or scone too, you know for morning tea? Well last week, while the house was upside down in a mess with photography, we bought in (yes I know!) scones for  morning tea. I love date or cheese scones at about 11 am, which is about when the hunger bug hits after an early breakfast.

First up was the cheese scone from a local, well-known trendy food store – a cheese scone weighing in at 318 grams. Now that's a heavy going ball of dough if ever there was. Let's convert that so you get a picture of how big that is...

1 cup flour = 125g
1 cup grated cheese = 100g

So that's  1 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup cheese, some butter and milk thrown in to make a scone. I make pancakes for breakfast for the kids some morning and I can feed them both on 1/2 cup flour, 1 egg and milk!!!

Or think of this another way, a loaf of bread is 750 grams (usually) so that scone was just under 1/2 loaf bread.

On day two we bought Date Scones for well-known commercial branded supermarket and it weighed in at 105 grams, much better, but given a scone should be somewhere around 50-70 grams, it still weighs in as 2 servings, which if served with a full-cream café latte is not all that healthy, and that's before we add a portion (or two) of butter.

Read my recipe for Wholemeal and Buttermilk Date Scones here »