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Fans of the BBC series “Father Brown,” set in a 1950s British village and based on the Father Brown mysteries by G.K. Chesterton, know all about Mrs. McCarthy’s “award-winning strawberry scones.” Mrs. McCarthy is Father Brown’s church secretary and she brings a plate of the crispy, fluffy, jam-stuffed baked goods to many a rectory affair. (The character, played by Sorcha Cusack, departed the series after nine years, in 2023.)
Chesterton was not a gourmet — he had “a lyrical perception of the right proportion of things,” according to friend and biographer W.R. Titterton — but he was a great lover of hearth, home and family life, and he believed in the connective human importance of food and drink. In “What’s Wrong With the World,” he writes that “All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. … Each human soul has the sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.”
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Chesterton was not a gourmet — he had “a lyrical perception of the right proportion of things,” according to friend and biographer W.R. Titterton — but he was a great lover of hearth, home and family life, and he believed in the connective human importance of food and drink. In “What’s Wrong With the World,” he writes that “All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. … Each human soul has the sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.”
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Tea with Chesterton: The mystery of Father Brown's strawberry scones
Discover the story behind Mrs. McCarthy’s famous scones from "Father Brown" — and learn how to bake your own strawberry scones.
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