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SCONE

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCONE  , the Scots name of a

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species of cake made of wheat or barley
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meal and baked on a griddle . The cakes are round and are usually cut into four pieces, thus giving the familiar shape of a wedge with circular edge . The broad
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lowland bonnet was called a " scone " or " scone-cap " from its shape . The word appears to have been a shortened form of a Low Ger . Schonbrot, i.e.
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fine
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bread, explained in the
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Bremen Glossary (1771), quoted in the New
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English
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Dictionary, as a sort of white
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loaf with two acute and two obtuse angles . The
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Hamburg dialect word schonroggen, fine
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rye, was adopted into
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Swedish and Icelandic in the sense of biscuit .

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