Singing hinnies

[Postie]

I am researching the origins of the name 'Singing hinnies' apart from >traditional Geordie< has anyone got any further.

[WendyW]

According to the Geordie Dictionary http://www.geordiepride.demon.co.uk/dictionary.htm

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SINGIN HINNIE. The best known Geordie food. Peggy Howey (The Geordie Cook Book) tells us: "The singing hinnie was so called as, when the butter and the cream melted during the baking, it sizzled on the hot girdle and was thought to be singing. An old tale is told of how this large tea-time scone first became known as a singing hinnie; a north country housewife was baking this scone for tea and on repeatedly being asked by her children if it was ready to eat, her final reply was 'No it's just singing, hinnies'." Also from the same source .... Hinnie is just a dialect word for Honey.