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

[Stuckinthemiddlewithyouuhoh]

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Also people are far too mean with cream

Clotted cream and a mass of it.

You cannot put that on jam. Doesnt work.

And you cant spread cream on top of jam, the jam just squidges out

It doesn’t for me, though it might depend on the type of cream as a pp said. Whipped cream here.
Much harder to spread jam on whipped cream than vice versa.

Spot on! 💯🙌

I think you have a poor technique and need skon training

0/10 for you and more practice needed.

Cream first

And dont even think about using anything other than thick stiff clotted cream.

Doorstep height.

Really?

Jam first is a gateway to the abomination that is whipped cream.

Cream first, the very thickest yellow clotted, deep enough to show teethmarks and stable enough that an extra bulwark of jam can be knifed on with every bite.

East Mids but Devon in our hearts bangs chest

Yep, people saying Jam first are showing themselves up as second rate cream whippers.

Wrong all round.

But whipped cream is so much better ❤️

Clotted cream replaces butter by orders of magnitude, so it should be obvious that cream comes first 😘 👌

One of each.

My thoughts and prayers are with you

First two responses absolutely correct. 👏🏻

I’ve got a fit of the vapours reading some of the comments, butter and whipped cream, what is this blasphemy? It has to be clotted cream. Or it’s not a cream tea, it’s some sort of poor man’s offerings.
fruit scones have butter or clotted cream.
cheese scones have butter and pickle or chutney, and a good chunk of the finest cheddar!
and agreed it’s skon not shown!

Whipped cream has no place in this discussion! Thick clotted cream, balancing perfectly well on top of the jam. See?

Nope, one bite of that and the jam squidges out. Even worse if its sort of firm jam, that will fly out straight into someones face, splat.

Cream first, jam second.

It didn’t - I ate it all perfectly fine. Nobody was splatted, apart from one of the wasps who were investigating with enthusiasm. Been eating scones like this for years - maybe I’ve just honed my technique perfectly to avoid cartoon-based disasters! Will have to continue the experiment next summer 😁

Jam on one half, clotted cream on the other then smoosh them together!
I thought you were supposed to eat the scone in one piece?

Not possible unless it’s a very skinny scone 🤷‍♀️

Oh my goodness, a Skon is not just for summer

#yearroundskons

True but we go to my favourite tearooms for them in the summer so that’s when I most look forward to them! Just as well really considering the hundredweight of cream I pile on to them…

My MIL on the other hand is a proper devotee and pretty much always has the wherewithal for scones, jam and clotted cream in. She’s very well prepared.

I am from South Devon and we always put jam first. And we didn't use scones, we had small sweet bread rolls. AFAIK scones were a Victorian idea which came in during the rise of tourism because they could be quickly produced on demand unlike bread rolls.

Depends entirely on the thickness of the cream and how stiff the jam is. Clotted cream with soft jam then cream first. Soft whipped cream and stiff jam would be the other way around.

Whipped cream? How dare you.

As for the vote, my brother lives in Cornwall, his wife is from Devon. Which goes first is not something I get embroiled in.

Jam first. Don’t tell anyone, I was born in Devon

I know, it’s a disgrace, but if unexpectedly served whipped instead of clotted I’m still going to force myself to eat it. And there’s no way you’re going to get jam to stay on top of that.