how much clotted cream do you have on scones?

[PoesyCherish]

We typically buy the Rodda's pot of clotted cream, 227 g. This does 4 scones + a little bit left over. I've noticed though if you get cream tea out, you get a teeny tiny pot of cream.

How much cream do you use on your scones?

Do you eat the scone in two separate halfs? I do but DP eats his whole because he's weird

And of course it's Clotted cream THEN jam, you Cornish weirdos!

No no no! Thin layer of jam and then massive pile of unencumbered-by-sticky-jam-that’ll-get-all-up-under-your-nose-if-the-pile-is-high-enough clotted cream.

How much cream do you use on your scones?

-looks at belly-

Too much! Because it's delicious with a lot of clotted cream 

What’s all this ‘thin layer of jam’ nonsense?

Sorry @Ragh. Hope the fall out wasn't too bad.

What’s all this ‘thin layer of jam’ nonsense?

@Shockers too much jam overpowers it though. It's defo got to be a thin layer.

@Verbena87 but do you not find putting the jam on the bottom means the cream gets a bit mixed in with it?

Mmm clotted cream and spoon. To die for.

Scone, liberal application of clotted cream, large dollop of jam.

So, so far this weekend my plan is to try all these different permutations of scone with various amounts of jam/cream. Then I can decide which is best.
Oh, and do Trip Advisor!

*@Verbena87
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But the cream acts like butter, allowing you to dollop jam on top and spread it. Do it the other way round and the jam gets all caught up in the cream- spreading action.

I have Devonish and Cornish Grandparents ( I still have no idea how they got together, given this irreconcilable divide) but I am firmly on the Devon side of the border when it comes to cream teas. They invented it, after all!

I work in a cafe , we have the individual pots ( which are barely enough in my eyes ) and I’m amazed at how many people don’t use the whole pot !
My DH thinks we can share one between us ( consider LTB )

I am a Cornish girl.

It is jam, approx 2/3mm thick, only strawberry, preferably local.

Then ALL THE RODDAS, maybe a good cm and a half thick.

That's how my whole extremely Cornish family have done it for generations, and therefore is the correct and only way. Thank you and goodnight.

Me too, all of it, in fact I could dispense with the scone....

the jam gets all caught up in the cream- spreading action

Ah that's where you are going wrong. If you just ladle the cream on by the spoonful there is no need to spread. Why spread when you can just put on another spoonful onto any un-creamed area. Spreading just makes for less cream.

LadyoftheCanyon - you're obviously not put enough cream on if you can treat it like butter on which to spread the jam.

When I am eating scones and jam (and there is a low carb variant I want to try once I've finished the 2 weeks of strict Boot Camp and have ground almonds - and there's a strawberry "jam" I've seen done with chia seeds to "set"), it needs to be jam first and then a massive dollop of clotted cream. No spreading involved.

Sorry to drag this in, but why is everyone buying Roddas when Aldi sell a much better one? Their pots have been exceptional recently, totally without the dismal, dribbly layer you get in lesser creams

Not as good as Riverford Dairy's organic clotted cream of course - that really IS the ultimate - but I don't think they deliver outside the south west?

I knew DH was the man for me when we went on our first break away together to Cornwall and had a cream tea.

I don't like jam. He doesn't like cream. So I have ALL the cream (and like as much on as I can fit, OP!) and he has all the jam. Perfect!

Yes, I do already know we're weird.

As much as I can before it topples over.

I would prefer just butter on a nice warm scone.
But if the scone is sadly cold then yes a good dollop of cream plus a blob of jam on top.

I have a friend, and I use that term lightly in what I’m about to say, brace yourselves.

She mixes the jam and cream together in a bowl and then applies it. I nearly burned her for a witch.

@frankie001 I'm so sorry but this sounds so lovely to me lol. If I do my cream first then add the jam with the cream I always lick the mixed excess of the knife (bad manners I know) x

As much as possible.

#anita# nooooooo!

I have to blow my own trumpet and say I make a lovely light, crunchy top buttermilk scone. Clotted cream and then Aldi raspberry conserve on top. Delish!

Pile it as high as possible!

Sorry to drag this in, but why is everyone buying Roddas when Aldi sell a much better one?

I had no idea Aldi sold clotted cream. Guess where I'm off tomorrow...

*I have a friend, and I use that term lightly in what I’m about to say, brace yourselves.

She mixes the jam and cream together in a bowl and then applies it. I nearly burned her for a witch.*

Is there a friend equivalent of LTB?