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.

This blog has not been abandoned. It just looks that way because its winter and day trips to tearooms happen a lot less in the winter. But I am already planning some trips for 2008.

However, to keep some scone action going in the meanwhile, I have decided to start a campaign of eating cream teas in the privacy of my home. There’s no point reviewing the quality of cups of tea that I make, because of course I make a good cup of tea. But I can let you know what I think of the various ready-made scones available in the supermarkets and bakeries of our good nation.

So hold yourself in readiness, and the scone joys will recontinue very soon…

Scone was fruited, decent texture, served with a mini pot of jam and a couple of pats of anchor butter. Which all sounds fine, but it was lacking in flavour somehow.

Tea - well that’s another thing altogether. Only nasty paper cups available, no real milk, only the unpleasant miniature cartons of ‘milk with non-milk fat’ which apparently ‘tastes like real milk’. Pah! And how much do they charge for just one cup of this sacreligious brew? £1.60. Bloody Nora.

£3.90 - far too much for what you get.