| Scones are among the easiest pastries to be permanently turned off of, depending on your earliest encounters with them. If you've ever had a subpar scone, you know it—and if the first you've ever had is subpar, you may have very well written them off altogether, then and there, never to receive another chance. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it happens. As a species, we seem to be inexplicably more forgiving towards mediocre muffins and lackluster doughnuts than we are hockey puck scones. It's sad, but as far as I can see it, there is a surefire solution at hand: Make incredible scones yourself, and show the naysayers—show them a new vision of sconery. Read more... |
