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But we're here for the scones - preceded by a little light lunch.

Stamp out scones using an 8cm-round cutter and place on the baking sheet.

Now use the pastry/cookie cutter to cut out your scones, reworking the dough when it's full of holes, until it's all used up.

"When I was making [1983 film] Yentl in England, 4 o'clock every day we stopped for tea and scones and pasties," she says.

When she was a university student, every time she went into the city, she always bought half a dozen scones. This kind of scone was a small, triangular flatbread.

"I thought scones would be good because you don't need too many ingredients or fancy equipment to make them.

A few things stand out, and these genuine British scones are one of them -- more or less, anyway.

VINTAGE CHEDDAR AND CHIVE SCONES THESE fantastic scones smell heavenly as they bake and they taste wonderful too!

Scones are possibly the most quintessentially British baked goods you can get.

This recipe for tattie scones concludes our four-week brunch series.

Choose between afternoon tea, which involves sandwiches, scones, fresh cakes and pastries, and your choice of teas, infusions or coffee, or high tea, to which you can add a selection of warm savoury pastries.

FALAFEL SCONES INGREDIENTS: (Makes about 30) For the chickpea crumb: 1x400g tin chickpeas, drained; 1tsp rapeseed oil; 1tsp smoked paprika; 1tsp ground cumin; 1tsp ground turmeric; 1tsp dried mixed herbs For the scone: 720g plain flour, plus extra for dusting; 3tbsp baking powder; 1/2tsp fine sea salt; 200g unsalted butter, cold, cubed; a small bunch of chives, snipped; a small bunch of parsley, leaves picked and chopped; 300g feta, diced; 15 halves of sun-dried tomatoes, diced; 4 large eggs; 160ml whole milk METHOD: 1.

The smell of treacle scones cooking triggers memories of childhood.

Christine Taylor of Strathallan SWI gave a baking demonstration, making pancakes, potato scones, griddle scones and Welsh cakes.