scone

Everyday

1. A scone is a small, slightly sweet, round baked cake, often eaten with butter, jam and cream. tree →
2. (Australia, NZ, informal) Scone can mean the head: "Use your scone!" tree →

In the lessons

In UK, Irish, Australian and NZ food culture: cream teas with scones, jam and clotted cream; in North America a scone is often a sweeter, triangle-shaped bake. In cooking and maths: recipes for scones, doubling quantities. Phrases: cream tea, scones with jam, fruit scones, cheese scones.

Examples

• We had scones with jam and cream. tree →
• Gran bakes cheese scones every Sunday. tree →
• The recipe makes 12 scones. tree →
• "Use your scone!" said the coach. tree →
• Put the jam on before the cream, or after — people argue about it! tree →
• The fruit scones were still warm. tree →
• Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he was as round as a butter jar. tree →

Note

Countable. Two ways to say it: rhymes with "gone" or with "stone" — both are correct, and people argue about it. In maths: if the recipe makes 12 scones with 300 g flour, 24 scones need 600 g.