1/ 🧵 /National Trust Book of Scones/ Sarah Clelland

Scone obsessive Sarah Cleland has gathered 50 scone recipes from National Trust experts around England, and has written a quirky guide to 50 National Trust places to delight and entertain you while you bake or eat those blissful treats. Note that these are TRUE scones (not the US variety, thank goodness).

National Trust Book of Scones, by Sarah Clelland
Published: 2017
Pages: 128
Publisher: National Trust GB
Price: around $15AU, but look around as prices vary.

Recipes: 51 scone recipes

Eccentric owners, strange treasures, obscure facts—it's all here. Whip up a Triple Chocolate Scone while you read about the mechanical elephants at Waddeston Manor, savour an Apple & Cinnamon Scone while you absorb the dramatic love life of Henry Cecil of Hanbury Hall, or marvel at a Ightham Mote's Grade 1 listed dog kennel while you savour a Cheese and Spring Onion Scone.

It is a small sized book, easy enough to pop into your handbag when visiting friends in case you want to whip up some Singing Hinny while you are there. To go with the freshly made strawberry jam you are also bringing, of course.

The recipes are all tempting, and enough different scones to have you never repeating them for a year of Saturdays.

There are sweet and savoury scones, not all are egg-free but mostly I think you could replace the egg.

It is a truly British book that lovers of TRUE British scones will adore as well as all nostalgic British immigrants. Note that the book annoyingly does not lie flat when open - grab your kitchen weights out.

50 of the best scones and 50 of interesting places to read about—you’ll never need to leave the kitchen again. I might start with the Carrot and Coriander Scones.

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