Patisserie

We thought today to try to evoke the spirit of the sort of cake shop where you can take drink as well as cake and where, in the olden days, people would probably have smoked as well. The sort of cake shop we have not been able to visit for getting on for a year now. I believe such places used to be common enough in France and Belgium, common enough to feature in the odd adaptation of a Maigret story for television. Not so common in London, more or less unknown in the provinces. Edinburgh? Dublin? Perhaps not Cardiff.

Can't do patisserie, so we fell back on cheese scones, as per our ancient Whitworths cook book, triple quantities, that is to say 12oz of self raising flour, from Sainsbury's own brand rather than Whitworths.

Taken with a spot of Calvados, we did 11 of the 12 in the first round, with the odd one evaporating before close.

Four months or so since we last made them, so don't need to feel too guilty. And it is not as if cheese scones contain any sugar. Cake tray a family heirloom from Cambridge, as was the scone cutter, not shown.

PS: to be fair, we did visit Bachmann's in Thames Ditton a couple of times last year, but for takeaway. So not quite the same as the real thing. See, for example, reference 1.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/07/jelly-house-cake-day.html.