Scone

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• A scone is a small, single serve, cake-like bread.
• Scones are generally made from wheat, barley or oats, and are best mixed by hand.
• Scones are believed to have originated from Scotland.
• Scones are pronounced ‘s-con’ or ‘s-cone’.
• Scones were originally round and flat instead of the modern bulky round shape.

• Scones were originally made with unleavened oats.
• Scones commonly include raisins, currents, cheese or dates in the batter.
• Some people in Australia add pumpkin to the batter to make delicous pumpkin flavoured scones.y
• The English Oxford Dictionary says the term ‘scones’ used for the cake was first used in 1513.
• Scones are commonly served with jam and cream.

Bibliography:
Scone 18 February 2013, Wikipedia,<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone>