agency classify them not as a bread or a cake, but in their own category Scones and Rock Cakes.

History

During the Middle Ages, scones were piled up with biscuits to form wedding cakes. The earliest written recording of the usage of the word scone comes from 1480, when a petty customs account stated a baker, Frank Mathewe, had a small wooden chest with "400 spice cakes and 500 scone Jesus". The figure of Jesus was stamped onto baked goods at this time to show the product was made of the highest grade flour. The earliest record

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