Let's settle this with a vote, scones,jam first or cream first ?

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Vote

Butter first.
Then jam.
Then cream.

Then eat.

Jam second, cream third. Because butter comes first. Not having butter as well as the cream and jam is unacceptable.

I'm a cream first person if left to my own devices. Does that make me Devon or Cornwall?

I don't really care that much either way,, though...I could be persuaded to do jam first if I was with someone who was bothered by it!

Cream first, because it takes the place of butter (only more generously applied!)

Depends if you live in Devon or Cornwall. In Devon we do it the correct way which is cream first.

I can see the logic of cream third if you're going to have butter too. I don't usually bother with butter, so the cream goes on first instead of butter.

Butter then jam then cream.
Because you can get more cream on top of jam - if I put a big dollop of clotted cream on my scone first the weight of the jam would cause bits of the cream to drop off the sides.
And it's scone to rhyme with "on" not "own".

If there’s no butter involved, I’d go thinly spread cream, jam, cream mound.

Jam first, spread evenly to cover the surface of the cut scone.
Topped with as much clotted cream as can fit in a bite!

Next question: skonn or sc-own?

Cream instead of butter would only make sense if it were cream, jam and then more cream. So it's a false premise and jam goes first!

Cut in half, clotted cream first then jam on one half, jam first then clotted cream on the other half. Because both Devon and Cornwall are great.

No need for butter because of copious quantities of clotted cream on both halves.

I always do scone, butter, jam then cream last. The jam is denser than the cream and can slide off the jam if you put the cream in the middle.

I also think its kind of assembled like a trifle, cake (scone) sherry (butter - yeah this one is a bit of a stretch) Jelly (jam - same colour and fruit based) cream (clotted cream preferably for scones, but I can go with whipped, as long as its not from a can) I know there isn't much logic to this.

There is nothing to "settle". Just do what you prefer.

This is the way.

Being a Cornish maid, definitely jam first!

Very happy to see the way the vote is going 😀

Just butter for me

Yes!

Sconn.

Butter
Jam (strawberry ideally Tiptree)
clotted cream

Totally depends on the consistency of the cream on the day. If it's firm it goes first, if it's softer it goes second.

This has been debated for as long as I’ve lived in England. The cream goes on first because it’s too difficult to spread it over the jam. Whereas jam is easily spread over cream.

Excellent use of voting facility.

My mum used to say

"You put butter on a skown. You put margarine on a scon."

Which I think settles that.

No to butter! Cream first then jam.

Correct.