{"id":831,"date":"2020-12-07T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=831"},"modified":"2020-12-07T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:01:58","slug":"elevenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/12\/07\/elevenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

I write the Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries<\/a> under a pen name, Patrice Greenwood. Like the heroine of that series, Ellen Rosings, I’m an Anglophile. I love British customs, and one that I especially enjoy is Elevenses.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Many Americans first heard the term uttered by an anxious (and hungry) Pippin in Peter Jackson’s film of The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>…”What about elevenses?” They are what they sound like: a meal–or more of a nosh–consumed at 11:00 a.m. or thereabouts. I suppose the American equivalent is the morning coffee break, with a donut.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I happen to be unenthusiastic about breakfast, as a general rule. I’m not hungry when I first wake, and don’t really get hungry until late morning. So for me, elevenses are the perfect way to break my fast.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

On weekdays, I fire up the oven at 10:30, pull a couple (well, three, usually) scones out of my freezer, and bake them up. A little butter on the side, maybe one more cup of tea, and voila! Elevenses.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It’s easy because I make the scones ahead and freeze them. I use a 1″ diameter round cutter, so they’re small. (More crust!) My recipe is adapted to high elevation, and I’ve been tinkering with it, so it’s a little different now than when A Fatal Twist of Lemon<\/a><\/em> came out, but it’s still a cream scone with currants.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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