OT (FYI) Scones et al.

According to my sources, there are two very basic differences between scones
and "English muffins":
--Scones use baking powder, and are baked in the oven.  (The basic recipe is
very much like US (Southern) biscuits with the addition of eggs.)
--Engl.muffins are a yeast dough, and are baked on a griddle, stove-top.

I've tried in the past to make both scones and biscuits, with little
success. Both doughs require a little kneading-- but they've very sticky,
and most of it ended up on my hands.  Both came out too hard and crusty, and
would have made quite handy missiles. I've never had a proper English scone,
so have no standard to judge against; my grandmother made excellent
biscuits, nothing like the nasty things that nowadays come in the exploding
tube.

Like Kou, I favor jam, honey or peanut butter; I don't think my arteries
could take clotted cream............

Re Pronunciation of "English" thread: the cafeteria where we spent most of
our time in college days had a particularly vicious young woman behind the
counter-- when we ordered an English muffin, she'd bellow out
['sI~Nl='I~NlIS] (no g's for her!!-- we'd never heard such an accent).

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