Toast, pasta, chicken: all blank slates of the kitchen, ingredients on which to build, to experiment. We're adding biscuits and scones to that list.
Because while they're wonderful plain, biscuits and scones can take on flavors sweet and savory, can be shot through with the essence of spring, can be filled with fruits or vegetables or cheese. Pour yourself a cup of tea—it's time to experiment (and devour) with these 8 recipes:
Almond Scones by Judith Rae

Buttermilk Ramp Biscuits by Midge

Vanilla Fig Scones by fiveandspice

Cream Biscuits by Merrill Stubbs

Naughty Rhubarb Scones by Midge

Cheese Biscuits by Merrill Stubbs

Walnut Sage Scones with Brown Butter Maple Glaze by MGrace

Shirley Corriher's Touch-of-Grace Biscuits by Genius Recipes

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