Friday, October 2, 2009
Largest Scone-world record set by the Chilterns
Gateway Centre
DOWNS, UK -- During the Dunstable Downs Food Festival,
staff at the Chilterns Gateway Centre cooked a giant scone,
weighing 132.27 lbs (60kg) and with a circumference of 35.03
inches (89cm)- setting the new world record for the Largest
Scone.
Baking in association with the National
Trust (NT), which is famed for its delicious cream teas, Prudens
Bakery on the High Street used its giant three by two metre
wide oven to create the 60kg
scone.
Andrew Pruden, whose family have been baking
at the Markyate shop since 1928, said that it was a novel
experience: "We've never baked anything quite so big at Prudens
and it filled the whole village with the smell of fresh scones!
We were happy to help the National Trust in their mission
and I hear it tasted great too."
Catering Manager at the NT Chiltern Gateway
Centre in Whipsnade Fran Brennan helped mixed the scone batter
at midnight with help from Prudens giant food mixer. After
just over three hours in the oven and a couple of hours cooling
time, the enormous baked treat was taken to the Dunstable
Downs centre.
Fran, a keen baker, said that it went down
a storm with visitors: "It tasted even better than our regular
scones - perhaps we've discovered a new rule of baking: the
bigger the better! Despite its huge size, there wasn't even
a crumb left at the end of the day. We're already dreaming
up plans to make an even larger one.
The festival was a week-long celebration
of food and drink, and included a farmers' and craft market,
a teddy bears' picnic, a cream tea dance, a multi-cultural
event giving people a chance to try new tastes, a history
and food event and a summer fair.
The festival is being funded by Bedfordshire County
Council, Sainsburys and the Chilterns Conservation Board's
Sustainable Development Fund and is also receiving support
from Tastes of Bedfordshire.
The festival aims are to promote local produce,
raise awareness of the benefits of eating locally produced
food and encourage new visitors to the Downs.
Clive Beckett from Bedfordshire County Council
said: "This is a great opportunity for people to learn more
about locally produced food and drink. There will be fun and
interesting activities for the whole family to enjoy throughout
the week. I would like to thank all the partners involved
in this project and I am looking forward to seeing people
of all ages enjoying themselves throughout the Food Festival".
Previous world records:
A
57 lbs scone by The Hallett family
A100lb
(45kg) cream tea scone by Anne Tattersall
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Friday,
October 2, 2009
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