A snack for Thursday

A COVID jab in the morning - an efficient effort from the Horton Retail Pharmacy - meant that there was a hiatus in the bread supply. And feeling a bit dopey in the afternoon meant that I did not fancy strolling down to town to do something about it. So cheese scones it was, seemingly the first time since New Year's Eve last year. Barring that is, a small effort from the young ladies in February. That said, my record keeping in such matters is not that reliable.

A triple round from the Whitworth's recipe book. Which is turned up, along with this post and various cheese scone nostalgia at reference 1.

In the course of which I was reminded that the rather bland cheese from Sainsbury's preferred by BH and which she stores in the freezer, crumbles rather than grates. While the cheese that I prefer from Neal's Yard Dairy grates in the proper way.

Also that white self-raising flour is quite different in appearance from the strong white from Wrights that I use for bread. A much finer, silkier look to it.

Part 1 snapped above. For some reason the scone top left burst open during cooking, with a flap being blown off the side. I put this down to a lump of cheese blowing off steam - which found a point of weakness at the side of the rising scone. Larger, that is, than is proper.

Part 2 followed not long after and there are two left this Friday morning to take with breakfast. Bread supply will then be resumed.

Fish slice not deployed on this occasion as jiggling the (butter greased) baking trays sufficed to release the scones.

PS 1: the green rubbery - but actually, I suppose, some kind of silicone - mat visible bottom right was a gift from the Camphill Devon Community of reference 3. Associating, I believe that I once, many years ago now, bought cheese from their colleagues in Yorkshire from the Neal's Yard dairy shop in Covent Garden. I don't think that they have stocked it for a while now - although inspection of reference 4 suggests that they do indeed make the sort of cheese up there that I remember - and very much the sort of thing that Neal's Yard might sell. I must ask them next time I visit.

PS 2: Sorokin, at reference 5, imagined more or less traditional thugs to do his king's dirty work, whereas I read at reference 6 that POTUS is subverting the Justice Department to bash people who have annoyed him in some way or other. What people with chips on their shoulders are apt to call lack of respect - with such people needing lots of it, laid on with the trowel. With abusing justice being the sort of thing that one more often finds in the murkier reaches of the third world, rather than in the richest country in the world; one that takes great pride in its antiquated constitution with its (very proper) division of powers. From where I associate to the antiquated hats to be found at the end of reference 7.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/search?q=Whitworth.

Reference 2: https://hortonpharmacy.co.uk/. The useful charity shop has gone, but there is a good fish and chip shop. Plus a rather cramped Tesco's which sells a lot of convenience food (and drink).

Reference 3: https://www.camphilldevon.org.uk/.

Reference 4: https://www.camphillvillagetrust.org.uk/our-locations/botton-village/.

Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/10/sorokin.html.

Reference 6: Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton indicted by justice department: Move is latest by the DoJ against US president’s critics- Stefania Palma, Financial Times - 2025.

Reference 7: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/09/trolleys-983-984-985-986-and-987.html.