Having successfully reduced our sugar consumption during the week our weekend consumption has started to gain an almost ceremonial status. We look forward to Saturday's and Sunday's with a sense of family camaraderie; planning the bakes and puddings that we might indulge ourselves in and setting time aside to enjoy them. This has resulted in a rather pleasing and well received family pact:
We, the family of Cross-Broome, will endeavour to sit down together for a cup of tea and cake on Sunday afternoons.
The girls completely embraced this new addition to our family agenda and threw themselves into scone and jam production with huge enthusiasm. The saying, "too many cooks spoil the broth", initially sprang to mind but turned out to be unfounded.
We used my Mum's scone recipe that requires sour milk, of which we had none, so had to make!
Souring the milk provided a bit of intrigue and some exclamations of "yuuuuck, that's gross" as the curdled liquid came into being.
The many hands, well the six hands, worked together like one big baking machine to produce some yummy scones, whipped cream, jam,
lots of laughter and a big, floury, smiley mess!
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