Meet Victorian House Scones

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to produce your favorite recipe as a mix?  Meet Debbie Anderson founder of Victorian House Scones.  Let this excerpt from her recent Tea Radio interview bring you inspiration.

DS: “Hi, everyone. Welcome to another addition of Tea Radio. I am always thrilled to be bringing you some new and exciting things to do with tea and today we’re not actually focusing on tea itself we’re focusing on a companion article. A companion item that often goes hand in hand, and it’s not toast. So I would like to introduce you to The Scone Lady, from Victorian House Scones this is Debbie Anderson. And Debbie, welcome to the broadcast!

DA: Thank you. I’m happy to be here.

DS: It’s great to have you. Victorian House Scones is the name of your company, right?

DA: Right.

DS: And where are you guys located?

DA: We are located in Lafayette, Indiana.

DS: Okay, Indiana. And are you a retail location or, I know were going to talk a little about your website, so you do have a website if people are listening to this and are in Indiana is that a place they can actually drop by or what?

DA: We do not actually have a retail location. Our retail presence so to speak is our website. What we are primarily is wholesalers and manufactures of the scone mix and then we sell to tea rooms, gift shops, B&B’s and so on. So that they can either go ahead and retail our mixes or we also sell commercial size bags for them alone so that they can go ahead and serve scones to their guests.

DS: Fabulous, okay so let’s step back here because Debbie has agreed to let us in on a secret. Now some of you may actually be listening to this broadcast and have this question on your mind and that is “What is a scone?” Now Debbie do you ever get that question? What is a scone?

DA: I get this question all the time and of course if I say to someone “Would you like a sample of a scone?” they look at me like "Why would I want to eat rocks?" because they assume I said stone. A scone actually as I tell them is a biscuit, primarily; it’s more a biscuit than a cookie or a cake. Its origins lie in the British Isles, be it Scotland, be it England.

And where I first found them is I had father who when he was doing traveling he would pick up books at airports. He tended to pick up Miss Marple mysteries. And then he would hand then to me when he got back so I grew up reading Miss Marple. And if you ever read British mysteries they solve everything over tea and scones. I still never knew what a scone actually tasted like. But I knew they were very cool and obviously enlightening.

DS: So now that you not only eat them but manufacture them do you find that you’re solving a great deal of mysteries?

DA: Don’t I wish!

DS: Like a natural something that came to you after.

DA: Exactly. I became all wise and all knowing. Uh, no!

DS: That would be a good selling point right there! Well, let’s talk a little bit about your scone story because, how did you get from eating scones and reading Miss Marple mysteries to deciding to actually manufacture scones? What was that like? ......

(C) Dawnya Sasse 2007

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