Wingsch Real Estate Investments   

Scones

Sunday, 10 May 2026 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien
Category/Kategorie: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post A scone is a traditional British and Irish baked good, popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the US, scones are a different baked product from the rest of the world, usually sweeter, triangular in shape and served on their own.

Scones are usually made of either wheat flour or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans, or fried in a frying pan. A scone can be either lightly sweetened or savoury, and can be occasionally glazed with egg wash. The sweetened scone is a basic component of the cream tea, and the afternoon tea. It differs from teacakes and other types of sweet breads that are made with yeast. Scones were chosen as Ireland‘s representative for Café Europe during the Austrian presidency of the European Union in 2006.

What a scone is, either a bread or a cake, is a debate that is often discussed. The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson names the scone as a cake, which is also the description used by both the Oxford and Cambridge Dictionaries. In 2018, in a discussion on Facebook users could not agree if scones were a bread, cake or should be in their own category. Food writers and producers have also stated it’s neither a bread or a cake, as they are richer than bread, but not as rich as cake, with a texture of its own. Unlike bread, scone dough is not kneaded but lightly worked, while cake is made with a batter. The Food Standards Australia New Zealand agency classify them not as a bread or a cake, but in their own category Scones and Rock Cakes.

Read more on bbcgoodfood.com – Classic scones with jam & clotted cream and Wikipedia Scone (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.