#sour cherry scone

[themagic-est]

I know there is a good sour cherry scone recipe post going around but I can't find it😭😭😭 if anyone has it on hand I'd be eternally grateful 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[crankybeetle]

@carryon-countdown day 29: cherry

Not me grabbing a cherry scone stock image lol

[sprocket13]

I just discovered Adagio has Simon Snow and Baz Pitch tea. So of course I had to bake sour cherry scones from @cookingmywaythroughcarryon to go along with them!

[bloodiedpixie]

Some sour cherry scones for the birthday boy!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMON SNOW!!!

[monbons]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you to @emeryhall and @thewholelemon for the tags. Special thanks to EVERYONE who shared advice or encouraging words on my last post. I am actively putting all of your words into practice and just taking a break to fill my cup, which looks like reading fics, baking treats, and exercising.

This upcoming chapter is on the shorter side and contains one of the bigger reveals of the fic (two if you are a super close reader like @cutestkilla), so I can't post too much.

Instead, I'll pull the curtain back on the writing process as @bookish-bogwitch did and share a picture of a note I made on the outline for a future chapter that I find amusing.

In the spirit of bait and switch, here are two lines where someone will gasp in chapter 4 and it will not be for sexy reasons...

Baz closes his eyes, gasps softly, and nods. “Basil!” she gasps. “What happened in the woods?”

Hellos and high-fives! @roomwithanopenfire, @raenestee, @best--dress, @beastmonstertitan, @valeffelees

@hushed-chorus, @iamamythologicalcreature, @drowninginships, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @arthurkko

@brilla-brilla-estrellita, @noblecorgi, @aristocratic-otter, @comesitintheclover, @ivelovedhimthroughworse

[a-lilguy]

Channelling my inner Simon Snow today with a sour cherry hot chocolate from my local cafe ✨

[pumpkin-wants-a-cherry-scone]

Re: tokyo mew mew AU

so I changed the whole thing pretty much BUT.

Her animal is still a forest owlet, but her fruit is mangosteen. I changed things to fit mangosteen (quick drawing of mangosteen depicted on the left; ignore my attempt at a star fruit next to it. I was brainstorming)

Name: Mew Mango (not mangosteen cause that's too long to say :p) (slightly confusing) (I guess the whole thing is fine) (idk) (if anyone feels compelled you can create your own name I'd love to hear one) (I'm not being sarcastic)

Weapon: Da-mango-maru (instrument is a damaru)

Attack: ribbon mangostaan-u storm-o (or smthn)? (unsure on how well storm and the damaru match. but maybe the sound of the drum could be like rain?)

@ebbpettier

apologies that I took a month. I hope you have not perished

not sure where her mew mark would be? maybe on her back (like mint). I'm slightly tempted to have it on her knee/back of her knee lol

it's probably obvious, but none of this is set in stone

redrew this picture of mint:

[fcktaken]

Not pretty but whatever, after six hours of cooking (minus the forty minutes I was gone to get my hair cut) I have now litres of chicken broth.

[rimeswithpurple]

Happy birthday, Simon Snow!

I channeled my inner Lady Ruth and made a whole tea spread

Dragon petit fours | Sour cherry scones | Checkerboard cookies | Cucumber and beet tea sandwiches

@rainbowrowell

Bonus birthday biscuit tin under the cut!

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

will bake sour cherry scones for money

[yellownightshade]

feed him sour cherry scones and sandwiches with butter

[cutestkilla]

Tea for (more than) Two

So, in a delightful turn of events, I recently got together with some pals who are also TOTALLY NORMAL about Carry On. And we did our best to replicate afternoon tea at Lady Ruth’s house. And I thought it would be kinda fun to share the results (and some recipes, which are at the end under the cut). So, here they are, featuring:

Scones! (Sour cherry, ofc.)

Cake! (Chocolate with Chocolate-Orange Buttercream featuring a super respectful remembrance, Lemon Drizzle, and Classic Victoria Sandwich.)

Lavender Earl Grey shortbread cookies!

Finger sandwiches! (Egg & cress, Lemon and prawn, Caprese on focaccia, and Coronation chicken - all on freshly baked bread.)

A selection of teas! (Including Simon's Sour Cherry looseleaf blend, Simon Snow Tea, some proper English Breakfast, and of course Earl Grey.)

A giant slab of butter! (Fancy butter.)

A basil plant!

A crucible!

A sword through the table!

Special cameos by a Watford goat (wings hidden) and Prof. Minos (tiny fluffy edition)!

Sadly, no tea trolley, but we did our best to provide glamorous staging anyway.

It was pretty much the best, guys! Highly recommend. Recipes (including dairy-free versions for many treats) below the cut.

Chocolate cake with chocolate-orange buttercream (dairy-free)

Using this recipe for the cake, and this one for the frosting (instructions at the end for a chocolate variant). A hot tip is to use egg whites instead of aquafaba (they whip up much faster) and of course to add orange zest, per AWTWB ch 89.

Lemon Drizzle Cake (dairy-free)

Using this recipe, using vegan butter and replacing the self-raising flour with some flour/baking powder/salt ratio from the internet. Garnish with Kellogg's ICEE Cereal or any other weird cereal you saw at the store and couldn't resist trying, for a little visual flair.

Classic Victoria Sandwich (dairy-free)

Using this recipe, substituting butter with vegan butter, milk with a non-dairy milk alternative (ideally soy but in this case oat milk was used), and replacing the self-raising flour with the same flour/baking powder/salt ratio from the internet as above. Regular old granulated sugar can be used in place of caster sugar. Garnished this with some black raspberries, but any attractive fruit (or weird cereal) could be used.

Sour Cherry Scones

This recipe from the Joy of Cooking does the trick! Use the GOOD butter.

Lavender Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies

You can find the recipe here

Overnight Focaccia Bread

Lemon and Prawn Sandwiches

This recipe came from @cookingmywaythroughcarryon and there are tons more there for tea party inspiration, including alternate versions of some of the above, so definitely check it out!

[sprocket13]

Having a tea party in the rain to fight off some of this rain-induced ennui.

And to celebrate Simon Snow’s birthday, of course!

[kimaisalloren]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKECHI IM SORRY IM THIRTY MINUTES LATE I KEPT GETTING DISTRACTED

His full text under the more bcuz I like to think some of you like learning the fun facts from akechi

Thank you for the cake Kusuo! I’m actually a big fan of sweets like you, I find that sugar intake helps with my thinking, which lets ignore the fans thinking this might be a Death Note reference but genuinely I do enjoy things like cake, pastries, I’m not a particularly big fan of scones though. That’s a big off topic though. Black Forest with Oreos is quite delicious. Did you know that Hydrox is the original crème filled cookie from 1908 and Oreo later took the idea in 1912 and actually surpassed the popularity of Hydrox and due to the fact information wasn’t spread and easily fact checked in that era, it was heavily believed that Oreo was the original and Hydrox was the knockoff. Also, Hydrox was discontinued in 1999 but it’s actually available again. I want to try them actually, when they were petitioning to get it back, they said ‘nonconformists don’t eat Oreos.” Not that I think I’m a nonconformists, actually I suppose I’m fairly conformist since I will in fact be eating Oreos. Black Forest cake comes from Germany, actually. It’s believed to come from the fifteen hundreds, around the time chocolate was introduced to Europe I believe? It’s traced back to and believed to come from the Black Forest in Germany which is known for sour cherries. The cherries on this one though is actually maraschino cherry, which is actually a marasca cherry from Croatia! They’d distill the cherry to make a liqueur and were incredibly expensive! If I remember correctly, America started this new law of prohibition where they banned the sale of alcohol and in bars, but not the consumption. Which led to speakeasies and places where people paid a monthly amount of money, and they served alcohol but never actually sold it. Since the possession and consumption wasn’t a crime, only to sell and distribute it. Oh, so to be able to produce the cherries cheaper, they started making a knock off version, a professor in America, I believe it was Oregon? Originally Oregon was called Ouve Água, then called Oragua. If you played the Oregon trail games then they actually called it Oragua still. If I remember right, it means cascades in Portuguese, based on the navigator who traveled there. Oh, so the professor in 1938 discovered a method with Queen Anne cherries to remake them. Black Forest cake is a German cake but German chocolate cake is actually an American cake! Did you know the history of birthday cakes stems back from Greece?

Also have the thumbnail

[blackberrysummerblog]

Hi all! Thank you @rimeswithpurple, @cutestkilla, @thewholelemon, and @forabeatofadrum for the recent tags! I can’t believe it’s already this late in the year. It’s not Sunday yet, but I’m working tomorrow so I’m just going ahead and posting early so I can feel like I did something. I know tomorrow can be a hard day for some, but here’s wishing a very Happy Mother’s Day to those of you to whom it applies, and a peaceful day to those for whom it’s a little more difficult ❤️

I’ve been relatively busy with my writing this week (GASP) so I have a couple of things to share. First, some Baz POV from the second chapter of The Field Trap—things are looking up at last:

Eight snakes and a dragon. I knew he would be wet when he came blustering in—it’s why I unpacked his rucksack and laid his spare clothes out by the lit stove—but I still wasn’t prepared for the sight of Simon Snow’s ridiculously thin t-shirt and uniform pants cleaving to his body as though they’d become part of his skin. His chest is heaving, his curls are dripping in his eyes, and he’s holding aloft a brace of four large rabbits that he’s already cleaned.

Honey, I’m home, he’d said, and I know it was a joke, but if I wasn’t dead before, I certainly am now.

“Wipe your feet before you come in any farther,” I say shortly. “Dry clothes are by the fire.” I turn my back and hear him laying down the rabbits and his bow and arrows. Two loud thumps signal his shoes coming off, and then there’s the slushy sound of wet cloth rubbing against itself as Simon makes his way over to the fire.

“You laid my clothes out for me,” he says, like he’s awestruck. I bite the inside of my cheek and stare up at the ceiling, trying not to visualize what’s going on behind me as I hear his sodden clothes hitting the floor. “Baz?”

“What.” Who am I kidding, I’m very much visualizing all of it.

“You can look.” His throat sounds dry. I shake my head, eyes squeezed shut now with the effort of holding my fangs in. “Do you not want to?”

I try to think about everything I told him earlier. He’s going to end up following the Mage to the end of our world someday, and I’ll have to stand with my family. I think about my fangs, ready to burst from my gums at just a hair’s more provocation. I think about how inexperienced with all this I am, and I feel hopeless. And yet…

I turn around.

My second share is from the piece I’m doing for COBB, which I’m really happy to say that the first 5000 word chapter is completely written for. I feel strangely…competent? LOL. Here’s a bit of Dev POV:

And he did. I watched with a cold sort of horror as my cousin, always the more powerful magician of the two of us, stood on our balcony and asked the universe for a handsome man with blue eyes, golden skin dusted with stars, and curls that were neither fully blond nor brown. He would be strong, brave of heart, and make the best sour cherry scones in the world (sour cherry? That’s not even a real type of scone, I wanted to say). Instead I’d said, “That doesn’t sound impossible,” in spite of the sparkly-sounding skin. Baz had given me stink-eye as only he could and can, before adding the coup de grace: “He will have the blood-red wings of a dragon, and a tail.”

It had taken all I had not to burst into laughter at that, but my headstrong cousin was already pressing rose petals into the potion and blowing his breath onto them as he tossed them out into the night air. “Baz,” I’d admonished, but the spell was cast, his heartbroken wish already caught by the breeze and curling up, up, towards where the full moon hung heavy and silent in the sky.

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[onepintobean]

COC day 29 | cherry

"Things I miss most about Watford: No. 1 -- Sour cherry scones" (Carry On, Chapter 2)

"And it's all about Watford. Why my mother loved it. She made this list of everything she'd miss. Like, the sour cherry scones..." (Carry On, Epilogue)