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.

Proper clotted cream first in huuuuge quantities, then a thin-medium layer of jam on top.
As many thoroughly correct people upthread have said, cream is in place of butter. If your cream doesn't spread, I might quietly suggest that your cream is somehow deficient...

I love clotted cream more than life itself, and have embarrassed myself several times over by hogging the cream bowl in company.

Devonish ancestry, so always cream first, and scone like gone, to rhyme with I am right.

:)

It is scone (scown not scon, thank you!) no butter, jam then cream :)

Jam first, definitely.

I loathe cream teas so I don't know why I am joining in!

Live in cornwall but do cream teas the Devon way - cream then jam.

oldandcrabby no, 'tis only proper job with jam fust, then cream. Oi'm a Corn. But oi bet we can agree 'tis a sconn not a "scohn" and that anyone who thinks else is a daft 'apporth!

YABU
Rhymes with Ron / gone
No fruit
Never warmed, just room temp
No butter
Jam first then proper Clotted cream
Please can someone go through the thread and count up who's won?

Does the magic "e" mean nothing to you people?!

the e makes it scone to rhyme with own.

Yeah, that magic e, like in gone and done. It's been scientifically proven that scone rhymes with Ron by me who got A in GCSE science

The queen says scown.

Yes but she's the Queen. She drops vowels and shit.

The queen also says hellair. She hasn't got a clue.

Is there a correlation between those who make their scones correctly (cream then jam) and the way it is pronounced?

Cream
Jam
Sss-gone

Live in Devon but do mine the Cornish way.!!

you can get a shed load of cream on top of the jam. if you eat a bit too much cream in one of the mouthfulls you can scoop even more cream on.

makes sense surely.

Bogey do you say gowwwn then ? (gone also has the magic(ha) "e".

Scon with no magic "e" - was also taught it was as bad as saying "pardon".
Clotted cream then homemade plum jam spooned on not spread .

SCONE FIGHT!

ahem

The only way to eat a scone (to rhyme with "gone") is jam first followed by clotted cream.

Cream first is wrong because there's nothing for the jam to grip onto. I don't want slippery jammy creamy gunge atop my lovely scone.

"theres nothing for the jam to grip on "
That's why you have to eat them quickly and have another one

any chance anyone will be happy to go down the SconeWidge route?

scone
jam&cream
scone

May I say the OED is spectacularly useless in its pronunciation guide, giving both skoan and skon as options.

Fence sitting twats.

Zing

Hi Coffee. 'Twas me! And then RL got in the way.

Jam first. Then cream. No butter.

Oh fuck! I forgot to buy cream tea at morrisons for a second week!

You've just reminded me!

I like it with butter and cream. Butter stops your cream sinking in. Oh yeah, and jam.

And it's SKONN! Which doesn't rhyme with "gone" in my accent. GORRRN.

Shop bought scones are the devil's gall stones. Home made or nothing.

No no no.. lazy shop bought is better than NOTHING.

Imagine nothing. Horrible

I've had scones at Buckingham Palace and I'm here to tell you that it is cream first then jam for Her Madge. So there!

You're not supposed to spread the jam! Big blob on top of an even bigger blob of clotted cream is the only way.

But cheese scones will always be my fave, with lashings and lashings of butter.
'Ansom