scone

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"So I'm going for the more traditional English style of scone, which is round."

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  1. noun A small, rich, biscuitlike pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
  2. noun Utah Yeast bread dough, deep-fried and served with honey and butter or with a savory filling.

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  • Soda bread is heavier textured than a scone, and with a flavour more subtly-complex than the all-out buttery-ness of a biscuit. —  seven spoons
  • We got some coffee and a hazelnut chocolate muffin (I will just abbreviate fat American from this point on with FA, so the scone was for the FA), but it only used up about 10 Euros. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • For the record I rhyme with "gone" and I am wondering if the pronunciation of scone is a similar hotbed overseas or are those readers now entirely convinced of my madness. —  Poshyarns
  • "So I'm going for the more traditional English style of scone, which is round." —  Daily News-Record
  • It would probably be more Starbucks-y to top these with a mini vanilla scone or a Top Pot donut but I'm a simple girl with simple taste and there's nothing I like better than a powdered sugar donut in my hot cup of coffee. —  Bake & Destroy!
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  1. Perhaps from Dutch schoonbrood, fine white bread, from Middle Dutch schoonbroot : schoon, bright + broot, bread.

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  1. Also scon, skon; prob. from Gaelic sgonn, a shapeless mass, a block of wood, etc.
 

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