Reviewed: Jul. 13, 2009

I am actually rating these for my mom who made them. She followed the advice of another reviewer and filled the centers of these with seedless blackberry jam. She also glazed them with a sweet lemon glaze. She said that while these turned out very good she thinks they would be very bland without the filling and glaze. The person who posted the recipe makes clear that it's a good basic recipe to which you can (and probably should) add your own additional flavors.

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Erin

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Reviewed: May 31, 2009

I thought these were great! I manage a farmers' market and inherited a whole flat of strawberries I needed to use stat, and used this basic recipe, diced up a bunch of strawberries and topped with a little sugar before I baked them. They were fluffy, delicious, and not too sweet. My husband shouted from the other room "I can't stop eating these scooones!" I love recipes that are simple to make and easy to adjust to what you have on hand.

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sarai

Reviewed: May 10, 2009

I love this recipe and I make these scones pretty often. I usually add some different things into the mix, sometimes black currants and walnuts, sometimes cranberries and pecans, but regardless of what I add, they're delicious every time. They really lend themselves to tweaking, which is nice. Plus they're super easy to make and they are ready in ten minutes! I also recently discovered that they can be toasted in a regular toaster, so I love warming them up and eating them with a little marionberry jam in the morning. :)

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rudechack

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Living In: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Reviewed: May 10, 2009

They were light & flaky, however, completely tasteless! Won't make them again.

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RSALERNO

Reviewed: Apr. 25, 2009

Little effort, big reward!

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Dahlia Travers

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Santa Barbara, California, USA

Living In: Solvang, California, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 16, 2009

Fast and simple...my family loved them. I did tweak slightly as I didn't have buttermilk on hand so I sub'd non-fat yogurt instead, 1 tbls of baking powder (as I agreed with others that 2 sounded a bit much) and added 1 cup of dried cranberries. Like others I didn't mess with cutting out but did a modified drop version by simply rolling into a ball & patting flat once on the cookie sheet. I've been making, and eating, scones for 20+ years now and this is a great recipe -- easy to remember & add your own special touches. With just one batch this one has moved to the front of my scone list. Thanks!!

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Ausem4

Reviewed: Jan. 12, 2009

This is a great base recipe. So many possibilities. I just made my first batch with 3/4 cup raisins, 1/3 cup chopped walnuts and the zest and juice of 1 orange. The dough became a sticky blob. Whoops. So I added another 1/3 cup of flour to make it a dough again. Saved! I then rubbed the orange halves on the tops of the scones and sprinkled with sugar. They came out great! Thanks!

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Sarah9

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Akron, Ohio, USA

Living In: Ashland, Ohio, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 3, 2008

My best friend is a scone "snob" having grown up with an Irish grandmother who was straight off the boat and made scones that everyone loved. These scones, while not just like Grandma's, definitely met with the seal of approval. I thought they were good, but they tasted like buttermilk biscuits to me. I think that the next batch is going to get a spoonful of sugar to sweeten it up a bit.

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Mari

Reviewed: Nov. 9, 2008

I've made this twice, 1st time I added pecans, yum! My husband asked me to make them w/o butter, so I did the following: 1/4 cup more buttermilk, a little less than 1/3 cup Sunflower oil & I baked them for the full 15 minutes. Not as yummy w/o butter, but still good.

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vcessar

Reviewed: Oct. 31, 2008

Yum! I admit I did change the recipe by adding 3T. sugar, 3/4 c. dried cranberries and 1T. orange zest. But, these are so easy. I just patted mine into a circle and cut into triangles with a pizza cutter. They turned out great, and they are lower in butter/fat than most scone recipes out there.

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