Two things struck me when I opened up my pack of scones
1/ They are triangular - I think I have previously made my feelings about unusual scone shapes quite clear.
2/ Boy are they yellow! Maybe it’s the double butter, or maybe it’s the use of eggs in the mix but something makes these babies glow! I’ve got nothing against a yellow scone, it was just a little unusual.

The packaging bills them as “handcrafted scones made with double butter and succulent sultanas”. The word succulent on a scone package usually raises my eyebrow, scone manufacturers love that alliteration but it’s rarely true. However, Genesis, I think, can genuinely claim that word as their own. These are indeed big juicy sultanas, although I’d have liked a few more of ‘em.

These scones hit the texture pretty much right on the nail. Soft, but not fluffy or doughy - but with a decent amount of body. These scones are a proper tasty, satisfying munch, with a lovely sconey taste - I scarfed a couple from the box without any jam and butter just on their own, and they are moist and tasty enough to stand that kind of treatment.

£1.39 for 4 - a splendid scone, but they ain’t cheap!

Waitrose don’t make any grandiose claims about these little babies. Mearly stating that they are, “Delicious served with jam and cream”. And I can’t argue with that really. These are your basic pre-packaged off the shelf Waitrose own-brand jobs. In a pack of 6, they are a little on the small side, but lashings of fruit and a nice moist texture mean they get the thumbs up from me. Nice price too.

79p for 6. Excellent.

This scone comes from the cream cake fridge in the bakery area of Sainsbury’s in a box of two. Prefilled with cream and jam.

It’s really stretching the definition of scone. No fruit and the scone itself is very heavy on the icing sugar - I don’t mean the bit sprinkled on top - but they have obviously sugared this mightily with the stuff. Consequently you get none of the contrast between sweet jam and hearty scone - you just get acres of goopy sweetness. The jam itself is thin rubbish stuff. No fruit in the jam, no fruit in the scone.

£1.09 for two - pretty crappy.

Sorry, no picture for this scone yet. I took some, but they came out really blurry. I shall upload a pic when I next eat some of these babies!

These scones come in a four pack from the in-store bakery section of Morrisons, so don’t confuse them with the various scones you can doubtlessly buy from the cake and bread aisle.

These were on the big side and filled with plenty of nice big juicy sultanas. (Tesco may want to take note on what a ’succulent’ sultana is really like) Texture not bad at all, definitely fresh and light, but a little too spongy to score absolute top marks with me.

I enjoyed these scones very much and highly recommend them for home scoffing.

69p for a pack of four. I’m happy with that.

Let me be clear before we start. Tesco is evil and I rarely shop there if I can avoid it, but I was at work and the only shop within striking distance of White City on a Sunday is the scary miniature Tesco. And those miniature shops only sell the most expensive supermarket brands, hence I paid the princely sum of £1.47 for a pack of 4 scones.

I served these with butter and home-made strawberry jam (which was, of course, excellent). All done properly on good china - none of which I can fault of course, because I did it.

Down to business, the scone. For some reason these scones are square instead of round. That is just perverse. Presumably Tesco think that by altering the shape of the scone it somehow looks more authentic and homemade. Pah! No idiot would make square scones at home. Scones should be round.

Tesco claim that, “Succulent sultanas fill these melt-in-the-mouth crumbly scones, rich in butter churned from Cornish cream and lightly baked to perfection.”

I claim that these scones are averagely-sized, overly heavy and on the dry side. The sultanas, are just sultanas really, they are not the big juicy sultanas the word succulent would lead you to expect. As far as ‘rich in butter…’ goes. You wouldn’t know. Tastewise, these are just the same as any supermarket scone filled with hydrogenated engine oil. There’s no melting in the mouth here. These scones require a sturdy chew.

They do the job, but are definitely nothing to write home about. If these are what Tesco consider to be ‘Finest’ I venture into their regular scones with some trepidation.

£1.47 for a pack of 4. Overpriced rubbish.