| 单词 | soda scone | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassoda scone  1.  A large round cake made of wheat or barley-meal baked on a griddle; one of the four quadrant-shaped pieces into which such a cake is often cut; more generally, a soft cake of barley- or oatmeal, or wheat-flour, baked in single portions on a griddle or in an oven. Also with defining words, denoting varieties of this cake, as  butter scone,  potato scone,  soda scone,  treacle scone;   brown scone n. one made of whole meal.  drop-scone n. 		(dropped scone)	 one made of a small portion of batter dropped on the griddle or on a tin and baked.  fried scone n. one in which the ingredients are made into a batter and fried.  sweetie scone n. Scottish (see quot. 1808).The  Eng. Dial. Dict. has an 18th cent. quot. for ‘three nucket scons’ (three-cornered scones). The context of quot. 1513   below shows that a four-cornered cake was meant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > 			[noun]		 > a cake > griddle cake > scone scone1513 supple scone1786 barley-scone1820 brunie1821 potato scone1885 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > 			[noun]		 > a cake > griddle cake > scone > dropped scone Scotch pancake1767 drop-cake1835 drop-scone1899 pikelet1905 1513    G. Douglas tr.  Virgil Æneid  vii. iii. 15  				The flour sconnis war sett in, by and by, Wyth wther mesis. c1550    Complaynt Scotl. 		(1979)	 vi. 34  				Thai hed na breyd bot ry caikis and fustean skonnis maid of flour. 1744    in  Scottish Jrnl. Topogr. 		(1848)	 I. 334/2, 3  				Pyes and Bread and a Currand Scone. 1786    R. Burns Poems 23  				On thee [John Barleycorn] aft Scotland chows her cood, In souple scones, the wale o' food! 1808    J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Yule §4  				What the vulgar call a sweetie-skon, or a loaf enriched with raisins, currants, and spiceries. 1819    W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in  Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 285  				Never had there been such..making of car-cakes and sweet scones. 1886    R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xx. 196  				We lay on the bare top of a rock, like scones upon a girdle. 1899    E. F. Heddle Marget at Manse 100  				She..would bake drop-scones, and carry in my tea with her own hands. 1899    R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster 20  				Potato scones, soda scones, ‘droppet’ scones, treacle scones. 1916    A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed ix. 118  				Margaret..invited me to sample some drop-scones she had been making. 1942    C. Spry Come into Garden, Cook xv. 213  				Most people have a good recipe for dropped scones... Drop the batter from a spoon on the hot girdle and turn once. 1956    E. Grierson Second Man ii. 44  				Some tea-cake and drop scones and jam. 1977    Age 		(Melbourne)	 18 Jan. 13/4  				The cheese souffle looked more like a cheese drop-scone. < as lemmas | 
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