SCOTCH SCONES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1938, Page 8

SCOTCH SCONES

REGARDED AS A DELICACY IN FRANCE. There is one place in France where Scotch scones are a delicacy and that place is Aix-les-Bains, or, to be precise, Chambotte, close by. Chambotte is perched like an eagle’s nest above the blue waters of the Lac du Bourget, France’s largest lake, and it was here that Queen Victoria during four summers came to eat the famous scones prepared by Madame Lansard, a Scots woman of Killin, in Perthshire, married to a Frenchman. Madame Lansard has long since taken the low road back to Scotland, but she handed on her recipe to her children. This quaint little chalet contains a number of souvenirs connected with the patronage of Queen Victoria and the royal family, among them a small arm-chair in which the queen was carried by two stalwart peasants up tfie mountain road. Royalty and famous people have recorded their appreciation of Mme Lansard’s scones. A faded photograph on the wall shows Ellen Terry, with the inscription, “To Highland Mary.” Chambotte is a great favourite with visitors to Aix-les-Bains, who take their “high” tea (3000 feet) and scones on a terrace overlooking the lake and the mountains of one of the loveliest scenes in Europe.