To view "jam first" types with deep suspicion?

[CoffeeandScones]

On scones, that is (was a tangent on another thread, inspired by someone objecting to the idea of coffee, not tea, with scones).

I'll take the tea point. But it's cream first on a scone, then jam. Yes, it's harder to construct, but that's part of the beauty of its creation. A healthy bed of rich clotted cream, atop which you delicately and lovingly rest a nestling dollop of rich ruby red jam.

That's a proper scone, surely.

It has to be jam first, or my moustache gets all clarted up. Plus it looks nicer when you can see red jam underneath and not a pink swirly carbuncle on top.

NO!

Jam first, then cream.

NO butter.

I am from Devon.

I am right.

What meganorks said. The Cornish way is jam first but makes no logistical sense due to spreading issues. So I say the Devonshire method reigns supreme.

Also looks prettier.

Don't speak to me of Cornwall.

Warm scone (own)
Butter
Raspberry jam
Cream

Scone as in gone.
Moderate amount of jam (no butter)
Hyyyuuuuge dollop of clotted (never whipped) cream

Fin.

Raspberry jam? Are you insane? Strawberry is the only possibility!

Sorry, I meant (never whipped and especially never squirty).

Absolutely no swirly carbuncles.
Loving the clarted moustache :o

Raspberry jam is the best jam in the world. Bonne Maman is good.

I thought it went butter, jam, cream, more jam?

Fuck, I want a scone.

And I want to live in Cornwall.

But I am on a sodding commuter train where everyone smells like wet shoes.

Butter, then jam, then cream.

Do you carry on, adding more butter, then another scone, Xihha?

oh and scone as in gone, strawberry jam and clotted cream, never ever whipped cream or spray cream! (raspberry jam is however acceptable if you run out of strawberry)

My friend went for afternoon tea recently at a vair posh hotel. She said that the man who served them told them it should be jam first then cream. The reason for this is that the jam has a stronger taste than the cream, so if the jam was on top, that would be the first thing you would taste and it would overpower everything else. It's jam on the bottom, cream on top.

So there

It's clotted cream first. The cream befattens the crumb. You put the jam on with a tiny spoon. There's no spreading going on with jam.

If there's no cream then it's butter first. Then the jam. In this tragic, impoverished scenario the jam may be spread.

Imperial, No, but only because that makes it too hard to eat, you can however then have a second scone...

I don't want a dollop of jam.

I want to spread my jam, then cover it all with cream.

If you dollop your jam then there is only jam in the middle.

I bet your sandwiches don't have filling in the corners.

I'm not bothered whether jam or cream goes first and often make it either way.

However, I'm low carbing at the moment so YABVU for mentioning cream teas at all. Just like my ex friend who was showing off her posho tea room afternoon tea on facebook at the weekend.

However scone rhymes with gone, not anything else ever and where the cream is concerned, only clotted cream is acceptable, whipped cream or squirty cream> is NOT acceptable under ANY circumstances.

Plum jam is really good, as is golden syrup.

Sorry, but what kind of fuckhole puts whipped cream on a scone. Ugh.

i like scones,i dont care which way it is though,never thought about it!surely if someone does it the "wrong" way you could just turn it upside down?

YABU. Butter first, then jam, then as much cream as you can manage to pile on top.

Scone as in cone with an s in front of it or stone (its so bleeding obvious how you should pronounce it, can't believe so many do it wrong, I mean come on who pronounces it to rhyme with gone??)

Devonshire way. Cream first, jam second.

Cornish clotted cream is different to Devonshire (Roddas compared to Langage). Devonshire clotted cream is thicker so cannot be placed on the jam. Cornish clotted cream is runnier so goes on last

Jam first and then cream on top.