Hi everyone. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread. Must mean I love food, hey?! I am Australian and love scones and devonshire teas. I also love damper made in a camp oven and then drizzled with golden syrup. I tried to find gold syrup in the US when I was there and I was trying to make some ANZAC biscuits but had no luck. Someone suggested it would be the same as corn syrup LOL Boy were they wrong! Just wanted to post a recipe for a different type of scone --- pumpkin scones, and I've also posted a funny little video which was made by the person named below.

Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen's Famous Pumpkin Scones

Degree of difficulty: Low [<chuckle>]

You need:
1 Tblsp butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup mashed pumpkin (cold)
2 cups Self raising flour

Method:
Beat together butter, sugar and salt with electric mixer.
Add egg, then pumpkin and stir in the flour.
Turn on to floured board and cut.
Place in tray on top shelf of very hot oven 225-250c for 15-20 minutes.

[courtesy of ABC Queensland Stories - Originally published: 30/06/2004]

cut means to cut into rounds
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like that. The closer together they are, the higher scones will rise.

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Here's the video about pumpkin scones. This woman is a former politician.
Scary really. lol
http://www.australianbiography.gov.a...en/video5.html
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Here's a handy conversion unit.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm