After last night’s knitting group gift swap, I came home with a bag of holiday goodies, including a mix for gingerbread pancakes, a little sampler of different types of maple syrup, and a mix for peppermint chocolate scones. I like peppermint, and I like chocolate, and we are big fans of scones, considering how often I bake them, but the combination of peppermint and scone seemed a little, well, odd.

Nevertheless, this morning I decided to give them a try. So I stirred up the mix and popped them into the oven, and when they were done we sat down at the kitchen island, with coffee and the scones, and each took a bit.

I am not going to be craving these, I will admit. The peppermint flavor is not overpowering, but it is definitely there, and it’s not something I would do again for a bread product. Peppermint in cake, definitely. But peppermint, I think, does not belong in a scone. However, they’re not *bad*, and I can overlook the peppermint for the stronger flavor of the scone, so I didn’t mind them.

Richard, on the other hand, thought they were completely foul. He took one bite, and then his entire face screwed up in horror. He tried to wash away the taste with coffee but peppermint has this tendency to stay around for a while. So then he decided he’d have cereal for breakfast. While I nibbled the rest of my scone, he poured himself some cereal and then started to pour the milk, and I knew, even before it started to come out, just by the way it sounded in the carton, that this was going to be a bad idea. Alas, even as I yelled ‘Wait!’, it was too late. That milk had turned completely, to the point where what he poured out onto his cereal was closer to the consistency of yogurt than liquid. So much for his having cereal.

I tried to be sympathetic but it is very hard to be sympathetic when one is in danger of falling off one’s chair because one is laughing so hard. Poor Richard. He eventually ended up making himself oatmeal and that came out just fine. But I suspect I’m going to be giggling about this all day, and probably for a long time after.

Tis the season for Holidailies!