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.

Only people who have to work for a living would consider a shop bought scone to be acceptable. I just send word to the cook, via the housekeeper, via the butler, via my parlour maid to whip a batch up pronto.

I tell you what I do.
you'll be all rolling your eyes, but here it is:

I put clotted cream all over one half of the scone
I put jam all over second half of scone

then I quickly push the two sides together. tada!

you can flip it either way (the Devon/Cornwall argument) genius or what?

When I was growing up the was no such thing as clotted cream for our scones (foreign, not amazingly old!). You try putting jam on top of unstable whipped cream and are how well you do. Thus jam then cream (or in my case, jam then more jam, or even better forget the scone and eat something that actually tastes good)

On a peanut butter and jam sandwich however, it is definitely peanut butter first then jam

I go Cornish.

Jam on first, then full fat clotted cream with bits on hard fat formed on it, on the top.

No, I will never try putting whipped cream on a scone. You can't make me!

I had my first proper cream tea in Devon, and it was cream then jam - which is kind of the equivalent of butter then jam when making a sandwich, so seems more logical.
you get a more even proportion of both cream and jam that way as well - don't you think?

Jam goes on first because it's sweet and there's a finite amount of sweetness a person can handle. Putting the cream on second means you can pile on as much as is possible to get on. 3 inches is good.

TiggyD 3 inches is all you have? tsk

Yanbu. That is EXACTLY how a like a scone. I partake of a cream tea at least once a fortnight. That is how I roll.

YANBU. Proper, thick Deb'n clotted cream as butter substitute first then jam. Jam hard to spread on a dry scone. NO FRUIT.

I pronounce it to rhyme with stone like my mum. Just can't bring myself to say it any other way.

I say scone (gone) and DH says scone (skone). We do manage to live in harmony. Tho of course he is wrong.

We did a controlled experiment on the cream/jam order.

Result ..... Clotted cream then Tiptree raspberry jam.

I put on exactly double of both, to what normal people do. I laugh at their insufficiency!

(Though my Granny was from Devon so that explains why I felt this was instinctively the correct way )

I also find cutting the (shop) scone in half and lightly toasting it makes them light & lovely. Yummmmmmmm

MrsBert I am crying at "what kind of fuckhole puts whipped cream on a scone"

Cream is a butter substitute so goes on first. Jam on top. End of. Although don't (really, don't!) get me started on people who offer whipped cream instead of clotted .

I have relaxed on the issue of fruit in the scone. But only a bit.

Tsk tsk tsk. Right, repeat after me, cone cone cone now add an s in front scone scone scone. Simples

YABU. The best scones are cheesy ones with about three times as much cheese as the recipe states (so more like scone cheeses ) scoffed while still warm with nowt else on them but if you MUST eat the cheeseless variety then jam should be before cream.

Scone pronounced as in "it's gone". Which surely is the derivation of the word. Very quickly (if spread correctly) in my case .

Butter then jam then cream. And it has to be red jam. Strawberry preferably. I wish you all world peace.

Lord-would some folk use apricot?

Jam first, you heathens from East of the Tamar!

I missed a scone thread! :(

Scone must rhyme with gone or my name would not make sense - alright?!

It must be crusty clotted cream first then jam. I defy anyone to spread proper clotted cream on top of jam, it would just slide off! I have a recipe for home made clotted cream but I am not sharing so ner

I asked the maid, in dulcet tone
To bring to me a buttered scone.
The silly girl has been and gone
And brought instead a buttered scone.

I genuinely don't care whether you put on jam first or cream first or if you pronounce it 'sconnydoodah'. I am ZEN.

I save my rants for proper Weetabix etiquette.

thanks to this thread, I went and indulged for dessert tonight.

ha! that's really clever Bogey!