Holly's most recent post is about addictions and how much she likes Diet Coke. The temptation was too great to leave it alone and I had to chime in about how I am a victim of baking powder biscuits.
I can stay on a diet from here to eternity until I am faced with really good baking powder biscuits. I make great ones at home, but because they take thought and work I can generally avoid falling prey to them. But if I'm in a restaurant, forget it, although if I order biscuits and they're unsatisfactory I won't bother with them. Life is too short to fall off the diet wagon for anything less than the best baking powder biscuit.
Biscuits are best with butter (the real thing) and honey, or butter and jam, or butter. They should be high, white, and soft as clouds, except for the crisp-tender bottoms and the crusty golden tops. See? You know what I mean. Admit it, you can taste them now.
True scones are another temptation. Most of the scones you find for sale in the U.S. are Plato's Cave offerings, merely overly-sweet and frequently underbaked pale imitations of the real thing that won't even turn my head. A true scone occasionally has golden raisins in it and is hardly sweet at all. Again, a little butter or better, some clotted cream, some jam, and you can find the road straight to heaven laid before your feet. As if all of the other links weren't enough, here's a link to my favorite recipe. If this is all too much for you and you find yourself in a hurry, the Fisher Fair Scone Mix does all right, too.
Jane at yarnstorm occasionally features scones in her posts, and they always send me to the kitchen.
My other irresistables are sugar cookies. Homemade, slightly burnt, undercooked, storebought, it doesn't matter, I'm there. If they have soft icing on them, I'm beside myself. I'm also a sucker for shortbread.
Oh, I've done it now. Guess I'm making scones tonight.
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