: a rich quick bread cut into usually triangular shapes and cooked on a griddle or baked on a sheet
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Make Time for Tea Next door, Draper Blooms Tea Garden delights with a formal tea service that features scrumptious finger sandwiches, vanilla scones, seasonal jams, and bite-size sweets, like brownies and breads.
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Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
That works particularly well in baked goods like scones, muffins, sweet breads, cookies, brownies, and cheesecake bites, but it can also be adapted to savory dishes like chili, curry, pasta, lasagna, mac and cheese, meatballs, empanadas, and many more.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 18 Mar. 2025
The shop’s menu is simple, featuring Irish soda bread loaves and scones served with salty butter and fresh raspberry jam.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
Goldie’s also hosts a delightful afternoon tea, with sweets like strawberry and cream cake, peaches and cream tart, early grey tea mousse along with savories such as butter scones, coronation gougere (cheese Gougère, coronation chicken salad, apricots, almonds), and burrata tomato tartine.
—Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
That works particularly well in baked goods like scones, muffins, sweet breads, cookies, brownies, and cheesecake bites, but it can also be adapted to savory dishes like chili, curry, pasta, lasagna, mac and cheese, meatballs, empanadas, and many more.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 18 Mar. 2025
The shop’s menu is simple, featuring Irish soda bread loaves and scones served with salty butter and fresh raspberry jam.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
Goldie’s also hosts a delightful afternoon tea, with sweets like strawberry and cream cake, peaches and cream tart, early grey tea mousse along with savories such as butter scones, coronation gougere (cheese Gougère, coronation chicken salad, apricots, almonds), and burrata tomato tartine.
—Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Scone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scone. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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scone
noun
ˈskōn 
ˈskän
: a quick bread baked on a griddle or in an oven
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