Perfect Scone Recipe. Scones are the perfect addition to your
perhaps it was their awkward sizing,
morning tea party or afternoon snack. They
the predicament of what shape to make
can be enjoyed sweet or savoury, covered in
them, the constant turmoil of whether
condiments or just by themselves. But baking
or not to incorporate a sweetener. Per-
the perfect scone can bring its difficulties.
haps scones are innately flawed in their simplicity. Regardless, they were my vice,
It all began in year three when my cordial
and I told no one. It was a secret that
Irish mother let me lick the cake spoon and
weighed heavy on my shoulders with
my love for baking was birthed. I have been
years of accumulated guilt and shame.
in the kitchen ever since, baking almost
Never could I bring myself to admit
everything imaginable; cakes, slices, pastries,
that I could be bested by such a pathetic
bread infused with every fruit that grows
floury snack.
under the sun, sometimes even vegetables, roti, English muffins, hell, I’ll bake a mean
In a fit of my humiliation, I vowed that
crouton if I’m in the mood. My cookie
I would make something of myself. I
batches would never last more than a day in
enrolled into law school, sat within the
the cookie jar, I won the Portuguese sweet
cold asbestos-ridden walls of Ligertwood
bread competition within the South-Aus-
for four miserable years, and got my-
tralian-Portuguese baking society for seven
self a respectable degree. A few years of
consecutive years, I was employed by Hamish
gruelling work for the man aided greatly
Blake to secretly make his son’s notorious
by No-Doz and I found myself one of
birthday cakes (the Instagram stories are all
the most sought-after solicitors in the
a lie).
Adelaide metropolitan region.I’d gotten myself a beautiful, intelligent wife, and
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But I could never maaster the art of the
we lived together in a beautiful, Burnside
scone. I could never put my finger on it,
house.
