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Every Sunday when I was a child, I visited my grandma in a little village in Devon. The best part of the visit was always her scones.
Last weekend, I decided to make them myself for the first time. I found Grandma's old recipe in a notebook. First, I rubbed the butter into the flour. Then I added a little sugar and some milk to make a soft dough. Next, I cut it into circles and put them in a hot oven for twelve minutes.
While they were baking, I opened a pot of clotted cream and some strawberry jam. When the scones came out, they smelled wonderful. In Devon, people put the cream on first and then the jam. In Cornwall, it's the other way round, and people often argue about it!
I phoned Grandma and told her about my baking. She laughed and said, 'Next time, bring some for me!'
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- sconessmall round cakes, often eaten with cream and jam
- recipeinstructions for cooking something
- rubbedpressed and moved with my fingers
- flourwhite powder used to make bread and cakes
- dougha mix of flour and milk or water before you bake it
- oventhe hot box in a kitchen where you bake food
- bakingcooking in an oven
- clotted creamvery thick cream from the south-west of England
- jamsweet food made from fruit and sugar
- wonderfulvery, very good
- the other way roundin the opposite order
- arguedisagree and talk angrily
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