To celebrate my Mom’s recent birthday, I thought it would be nice to have a small get together with the immediate female family members and have a tea party this weekend.  Take out the fine china, make some finger sandwiches and soup, and of course have scones and desserts.  I’ve tried so many scone recipes and this one is by far, the best.

Here’s my best advice to any scone recipe… do not overmix the dough when you mix the dry and wet ingredients (or they’ll be absolutely ruined) and use your hands.  I cannot stress this enough.  It seems a little odd, but trust me in that it makes all the difference.  After so many of my attempts at scones came out horrible, I started watching videos of older women from various parts of the UK making scones and the one thing I noticed was how they mixed the wet and dry ingredients: with their hands.  This proves two points: sometimes hands are better than spatulas, and sometimes you can’t just read a recipe to really understand it.

Thank god for youtube… where else can you learn how to properly make a scone from a 65 year old woman from England at 10:30 pm in Massachusetts?

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