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

All of it and a bit if DHs

LTW (leave the Witch).

@tellmewhenthespaceshiplands I just gasped loudly at your terrible tale!!!

The jam should be spread, the cream should be dolloped on top.
Devonians have to hide their inferior clotted cream under sugary conserve.

I am most definitely on the Cornish side of the border! (DH is Devon - I really should get around to LTB...)

Half a scone, respectable but not ostentatious layer of jam, followed by a roughly scone thickness layer of Roddas.

I have been known to replace the jam with lemon curd.

All accompanied by a civilised cup of earl grey/Assam tea. Preferably on the lawn, in the sunshine.

there is never enough cream on a scone tbh.

Someone once said on here that the size of the scone should equal the size of the cream.

I hate all those fiddly crap little minuscule pots of cream. M and s are the worse for this

Yours sounds lovely @Nordstrom Probably a stupid question but can you buy lemon curd or do you have to make it? I'm already baking a tonne for our afternoon tea on the weekend (hence the scone question) so CBA making anything else too.

@PoesyCherish Nah, I just buy posh lemon curd from the supermarket.

I have been known to spread the cream down the sides of the scone.

Wrong, but oh so right.

My local dairy is Trewithen, so I buy their lovely cream whenever I can. Which reminds me, I don't have any in the fridge at the moment.

I have been conducting research into the best cream teas in the south west, and although I'm in Cornwall, I have to say that the Mill Wheel Cafe in Dawlish does a very, very good cream tea. Obvs I did it the Cornish way though.

I've eaten most of my tub of Tesco Finest Clotted cream that I bought on Saturday.

So what? You might think that's rather abstemious

....except that I've eaten it on its own by the teaspoonful

That reminds me: I'll need to put it on the list for my next non-Lidl shop (my Lidl only occasionally has clotted crem). Next one is to Sainsbury's, so it will be Rodda's clotted cream

I am HORRIFIED by the mixing of jam and cream into one mixture. I almost screamed reading that!!!

Basically, regardless of cream or jam first, use the spoon like an ice cream scoop and put a generous amount on your scone and press gently, then repeat with the other. With practice you can usually get at least a good inch of cream/jam or jam/cream.

I have no time for people who don't use both jam and cream. In fact I have developed quite the reputation at work for being a scone militant, pulling up those eating scones WITH NOTHING ON THEM!

And it has to be strawberry jam. A close friend almost burned me as a witch when I once supplying jam of the raspberry variety...

If I'm baking my own scones, that's a link to a single person portion OP.

I don't bake often. For obvious reasons.

I only ever eat scones when I'm out so only ever have the small tubs and I use it all with bitter and jam. How on earth does your dp eat the scone with all his toppings if he doesn't cut it in half! 😱 perhaps the weirdest thing I've heard on MN 😂

Notlostjustexploring

I am also horrified at the mixing of cream and jam! Although I'm a raspberry jam type of person so you will have to burn the witch 😂

I can’t believe I have just thrown a tub of clotted cream in the bin! I love it but I was going to make scones but didn’t get round to it and now the cream is out of date.

SIL moved to Cornwall and introduced me to my new vice - take the top off a mince pie, shovel in clotted cream, replace lid and eat. Repeat...

I have been known to ask for more cream when offered a stingy amount whilst out as frankly wtf?

Do they give it to you @iknowimcoming ?

take the top off a mince pie, shovel in clotted cream, replace lid and eat. Repeat...
That sounds so yummy! I love clotted cream on the top of mince pies but it never occurred to me to put it inside. Are the mince pies warm or cold?

How on earth does your dp eat the scone with all his toppings if he doesn't cut it in half!

He cuts it in half, puts jam and a measly amount of cream on one half, then puts the other half back on top and eats it like that.

I'm sorry but you are going to have to LTB. Is he an animal?

Everyone knows that you eat the two halves separately, saving the infinitely superior bottom half till last

Oh, I always ask for more cream. Actually, I don't even wait to see how much I'm given, I just put it in with my order.

"two Earl greys, two fruit scones and extra clotted cream."

I've yet to be refused!! Although I have been given a bathtub worth of clotted cream, which is infinitely superior than too little.

I keep messing up with scones, being gluten free I have to get them from M&S, but they often don't have cream or is in a measly pot which goes no where and is twice the price for half the amount of cream as Aldi. Being half term and everyone off it is hard to convince them of the necessity of heading in two different directions just for essential ingredients. They like a cream tea but weren't weaned on to it as no longer in Dorset. By the way many of you health freaks are omitting the butter layer. It should of course be butter, jam, clotted cream. Slippery slope imho next you will be reducing the amount of jam and cream.

The only good thing about being gf is that most tea places don't serve gf scones so I never again have to risk having whipped cream which is worse than no scone.

@Womanlikeme for future reference the dates on cream & yoghurt generally have quite a big margin of error and you can usually go a few days over. If there's no visible mould on the surface and no funny smell then it's fine to eat.

@shouldwestay , the butter , jam cream scone is known as the triple threat in the cafe I work in !