To think that one should put the cream on first?

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On scones that is.
Because surely the cream creates a delicious fatty barrier, thus preventing the jam (raspberry of course) seeping into the sconey cakiness?

And we can do "scon" vs."scone" too, if anyone's up for it.

BDSM, you are so right. Including the teapot.

need scon now. drooling.

Scon, butter, then cream, then jam. Now I want some one.

NO YOU ARE WRONG

People are freaks of nature re scones.

Listen to aunty getorf. It is JAM then CREAM.

NEVER buttter with jam and cream.

Clotted cream only.

I am from Devon, therefore am judge, jury and executioner

The 'scon' should be a cheese one. Hot out of my oven and slathered in butter. Problem solved.

pmsl at all the tragically faces at the prospected of scones without clotted cream.

Gerrof you are WRONG!

You forgot your and foot stomp Gerrof

I think it all depends on where you are from www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13436963

Either way they both taste delicious

Ignoring, I like your style, but strawberry jam?

Yes, never cut with a knife, unless your name is Plebby McChavington.

Raspberry or strawberry jam only. Don't come at me with your damson jam.

Clotted cream is from Devon. Cornwall gave us the pasties and some tin

PIL (and DH) also from Devon. Clotted cream is a butter alternative, and therefore goes first.

I'm Cornish & it's definitely jam first then clotted cream splodged on top!

at honeydragon

What other cream do you propose putting on jam, may I ask?

Basingstoke - they are wrong. They are from t'wrong bit of Devon obviously

But surely, the jam would squirt over the edges and be lost if you try to spread clothed cream over the top?
Unless you use that weird hard jam that's more like jelly. And obviously that would be very wrong indeed.

Dh would probably strain something in utter exasperation if I made scones at this time of night, I making do with the cappuccino cake I baked yesterday.

With the chocolate icing on the outside and the coffee icing in the centre

Scon.

Butter
Jam
Cream.

Fact.

You can't spread jam onto cream ffs you loons.

They are Devon farmers Gerrof. You cannot get more Devonian than they. What they don't know about clotted cream is not worth knowing.

But you don't spread the cream, just dollop it on & who cares if it gets a bit messy!

You see, when someone says that you can't spread jam on cream, I know they aren't thinking of clotted cream...

Ah, I don't give a bollocks about chocolate cake, you can do what you will with that

septimus good clotted cream should drop softly from the spoon. It shouldn't spread like butter, that is what the shit they sell in supermarkets is like, and that is wrong

Scone, jam, cream. I am in Cornwall this very minute and am carrying out extensive research. It's hard going but I'm soldiering on...

And how the figgy pudding would you spread jam on top of cream anyway? That's insane.

"... thus preventing the jam (raspberry of course) seeping into the sconey cakiness?"

My jam (strawberry) has never yet had time to seep into any sconn.

And I prefer to have one half of my sconn spread with butter hard enough that you have to cut a slice of it rather than soft and spreadable and the other half to be spread with jam with the cream on top. Buttered half eaten first, then the jam and cream half. With Earl Grey tea, refill required before starting on the jam and cream half. I don't have OCD where sconns are involved really I don't

You use Bon Maman or StDalfour, Septimus, unless of course you've made your own.