Every morning the innkeepers serve homemade bread, muffins and scones.
High tea might be accompanied by potpies or shepherd's pie, whereas afternoon teas come with cheese, bread, finger sandwiches and scones.
In addition to farm-made peanut butter ($5.95 a pint), Holbrook also sells fruit pies ($14), bread ($3.75 to $5.50), cookies and scones ($1 and $1.50, respectively).
"And then we use it to bake our own bread and cakes and scones!" But a plan to sell local seafood was ruled out as overly complicated: "I know enough about seafood to know I couldn't do it justice".
McDonald's tried out breakfast pastries -- including a cheese danish, banana bread and a vanilla scone -- in Massachusetts in 2012, but the times were never nationally released.
These gentlemen's affairs are really "high tea", a proper filling meal dished up on the kitchen (high) table after a day's work – tea, bread and butter, cakes or scones, hot, hearty foods such as rarebit and pasties and possibly cold cuts of meat.
The book is organized quite sensibly, starting with muffins and proceeding through biscuits and scones, cakes and teacakes, breads, flaky dough and on to fried stuff (doughnuts!), pancakes and so on.
THE MENU Fabulous, quirky sandwiches like salmon on flat bread, scones and an array of bite-size pastries and tarts, which included a chocolate ganache, chestnut mousse and lime cream pâte-à-choux.
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