Reply With QuoteCream first as balancing jam on cream is easier than the reverse. Very helpful with the 60/40 split of cream vs jam.
Jam then Cream
Cream then Jam
What fresh hell is this?
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Cream first as balancing jam on cream is easier than the reverse. Very helpful with the 60/40 split of cream vs jam.
Needs another option - whichever is nearer or isn't being hogged by someone else at the time.
Speed of cramming it into my pie hole is the priority, not the order of application.
Noooooo jam is heavier than cream so cream sits easier on jam. What fresh hell is this? Unless you use that sickly clotted cream (heavyenough to fill the holes in plaster walls)
Butter - jam - cream on a nice homemade one!
This.Originally Posted by Suds
Although, Is it wrong to have just a buttered scone with jam, so we can dispense with the cream altogether?
David
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As above.
F.T.F.A.
I tend to jam, then cream.
Clotted cream otherwise butter first and 80% jam.
I’ll take the runs for clotted cream but not the regular stuff. Rather have butter than that.
Proper clotted cream first, every time, shaped with a central well for the jam.
Anyone using any other type of cream (especially anything as crass as whipped or god forbid, from a can) needs to be taken to Devon for birching.
Cheese scones with butter are so much nicer...
It depends upon which CD comes to hand first
We'll be moving to Cornwall in due course, so it'll be jam first or we'll get run out of the county. But as we'll only be a few miles from the Devon border we might have to remember to do it arse about face when we venture in to the badlands
But the truth is that it'll be neither - you can't beat a well buttered scone as far as I am concerned
when we lived in wales we used to visit devon and cornwall quite frequently.
the answer to the cream/jam conundrum is this - after about 6 pints of decent local cider it doesn't matter!
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There has to be an interface between the jam and the scone. To me, putting the jam on first is a bit like putting jam on toast then spreading butter over it. Clearly wrong.
Truly surprised that this is even a question..
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If you live in Devon or Cornwall it isn't a question.
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Scone - Butter - Jam - Whipped Cream, or
Scone - Clotted Cream - Jam
Scown or scon?
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Really - why worry?
Maybe I’m strange but no butter for me as the things are full of them. And jam only. No cream. Has to be raspberry jam as well. And preferably one of the excellent scones from Chester’s cafe by the River at Skelwith Bridge.
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Jam first, then cream - always clotted.
Can't believe some of the other nonsense I'm reading here!!!
Oh, and scone should be warm
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Tea! An absolute abomination of a drink! I'd rather drink tramp's urine through a sweaty sock !!!
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Those Cornish have always seemed rather "chippy." Just saying....
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Jam first, Christ on a bike! Its cream first, cream is like the butter on bread. You don’t put cheese on first then butter the cheese.
Tea is much, much worse than that. I last drank a cop of the vile stuff in 1972 and that was far too recent.
And obviously it's jam on the scone, with cream on top. What sort of muck savage would think otherwise?!
Cut in half.
Butter both.
Jam on one.
Cream on other.
Reassemble.
Eat.
If you have a scone in your packed lunch, should you turn it upside down when travelling between Devon/Cornwall?
Personally I would always go jam first; it spreads well in moderation, lets say 15-20%, then slather over lashings of clotted cream for the remainder of 80-85%. This is my favourite way.
This is the way.
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And…….Tiptree Little Scarlet strawberry jam
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Me too, jam doesn’t adhere well to cream on first.
But is the jam on the upper or lower half???
I have to say I’m not bothered about cream or jam first but that is an abomination … cut, cut !!! … scones should be broken open, never cut and as for sticking two halves together … and butter … I need a lie down …
Yes, strange sticking halves together. People must have a larger mouth than mine.
I'm from Devon yet it's Jam on first that way you can really load up the clotted cream on top.
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Always cream first then jam, in an equal 50/50 ratio which I have had this afternoon.
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Ben
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I've always gone cream first only because I only want a bit of jam on top
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That’s entertainment, by the spoonful.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Stop playing with your food
The only thing you need with a scone is a cup of tea. Stop all this mucking about and just pick the damned thing up and bite it. Didn't your mother tell you not to play with your food?
Does anyone even use a cup nowadays?
I see the clotted cream akin to butter and I don't put that on after the main filling in a sarnie. Ergo, cream then jam on scones.
Dry while still warm with a coffee today
Evenly spread with raspberry jam and clotted cream dolloped on top.
Scone, clotted cream, jam.
I spent many years in Devon, so that's my way.
If clotted cream was commonly thin and runny then there might be an argument but the clotted cream I get served requires a fair bit of spreading on the scone. Which then provides a base. So clotted cream first then jam. I wasn't taught it, I intuited it. I find it almost inconceivable that the human brain could come to any other conclusion. Maybe there are two species of human at large.
I was born and grew up and Devon and Grockles will be surprised about the passions raised over what really is gormless topic.
I always slice the Scone in half and I do Cornish on one half and Devon on the other. It bugs my wife which makes me do it all the more. She is a firm Cornish supporter and often serves the scones to me in Cornish just to spite me. It is this gentle jibbing which has led us to be be coming up to our 52nd anniversary unlike the vicious in fighting we get here.
We often take Afternoon Tea in decent hotels when we are out and about and they all serve the Scones uncut so the customer chooses which way they nibble the things. Also I heartily recommend that everyone should book a table for Afternoon Tea at the Ritz at least once in their life, there is simply nowhere else can can hold a candle to it.
Things are looking up on the Spanish front, a local teashop evidently has just started serving Afternoon Tea complete with the scones and sandwiches in the small town of Turre that will be delightful.
The Brits all over the world really do like their Afternoon Tea.
It is ALWAYS Jam First
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