Ti defriend my friend fir putting the jam on last?

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Fuxache.

Butter then jam them cream.

Vary at you PERIL.

Quite a few butter enthusiasts on this thread. Sadly, they are all misguided. However, this crime against scones fades into total insignificance compared to the abomination of using (shudder!) Stork! I have abandoned my liberal tendencies and am undecided between ten years hard labour or firing squad for this...

That is certainly a unique interpretation, Arya! It must have looked horrible with bits of solid cream bobbing about on the surface!

Cream (Devon clotted) then jam.

Having partaken of tea at Buck House, I can say that if it's good enough for her Madge, it's good enough for me.

How can anyone think jam then cream gives a larger quantity of cream??? It's a pyramid, scone is the widest bit, then cream, then jam, proportions perfect for maximum cream. If you do jam first, the cream is going to be on a narrower layer, hence less cream. Wasting precious scone surface area with butter is just crazy!

Did you have Buck's Fizz with that, Clobbered?

SetTheWorldOnFire - you have given a perfect (and scientific) explanation of why the scone/cream/jam model is the only possible version.

I particularly applaud your closing assertion that Wasting precious scone surface area with butter is just crazy!

Ne'er were truer words spoke on Mumsnet.

It's the difference between a Devonshire cream tea and a Cornish cream tea, isn't it? I had great fun on a cruise, at afternoon tea, alternating and announcing "I fancy Devonshire" then "I fancy Cornish" as the American next to be became increasingly agitated as she couldn't see the difference.

And just for contrariness... my BFF insists on just butter then whipped cream - no jam! Heathen I tell you!

For me it's jam (raspberry ALWAYS) and then cream so the jam soaks into the scone (rhymes with gone) and the cream doesn't all melt when the scone is too hot.

Hmmm - I think it may be a scone day soon.

not much to add, still feeling ill from "butter"
just no

I won't de-friend you though. you need one friend left after all

and you didn't specify what you stacked these on top of

scone? forgivable
toast? hmm
chicken? you fucking weirdo

You're ALL wrong.

Cream is an unpleasant, claggy, foodstuff.

Scones are ditto.

Now, that's .

Now I'm hungry.

Mmm just had a scone

For all you Cornish peeps on this thread I aim to displease! Research shows that the first documented cream tea invention was created in Tavistock in 997AD where the Benedicitan Monks fed the vikings bread spread with cream then jam strawberry jam but let's just ignore that as we all know raspberry is best

However, Cornwall holds the title for inventing clotted cream. In 500BC Phoenicians sailed to Cornwall to buy tin and traded their art of cream making for said tin. The recipe was adapted by the Cornish and is now clotted cream as we know it.

So there you have it, the Devonian way is the only way as it was here first but would probably be disgusting if not for Cornish cream.

And for the pp who said about 'Stork'...NO! NO! NO! What is wrong with you?!

Scone rhymes with gone.

when out having a cream tea, I view the scone as essentially a carrier for clotted cream. Jam adds a little bit offlaflavour.

But I can't for the life of me remember what order I put the cream and jam on. Just loads of cream, that's the important thing.

Now - do you eat the bottom half of the scone first, or the top half? Do you even care?

Bottom half first. Not sure why but always do.
I had a mad craving for scones last night after reading this thread by the way, so asked my OH to pick some up whilst we was at the shop. He bought really cheap little ones without raisins in! That's just not right.

No butter.

Clotted cream only and plenty of it. No punishment is too great for any establishment serving squirty or whipped cream instead.

Jam first or last I don't fucking care, but it has to be naice jam decanted into a little saucer or one of those mini glass jars. Plastic packets are not acceptable.

Fresh scones that are homemade or at least appear to be and must not be ready assembled and kept in a chiller cabinet. The scone must be at room temperature or slightly warm.

Plenty of tea in a pot, with top ups. If you are going to serve two scones per person, they need at least 2 or 3 large cups of tea to go with.

Scone rhymes with gone.

I don't ask for much so it's surprising how few places can get it right. I've given up with cream teas 'out' as there is almost always something wrong.

If I CBA making my own scones, Morrisons 'the best' bakery ones are the best shop bought if I can't get to a posh bakery.

How I layer them depends on the consistency of the cream and jam, whichever is firmer goes underneath (hopefully the cream)

But then - and this will alienate all of you - I often swirl them so that they mix together slightly ensuring equal jam/cream distribution in each mouthful.

Scone rhymes with gone, and gone, is the scone that has a lot of cream on it (and some raspberry jam to provide a stable platform for the skyscraper of cream to come).

Always bottom half first as the top half is nicer. If I am sharing with DH which obviously I try to avoid I cut the gone scone in half HORIZONTALLY so I can then have a bottom AND a top if I could get away with it I'd give him the bottom half

I thought butter was the pits but stork? EUWWWW!

I spend a lot of time scraping the very last vestiges of clotted cream from its receptacle. It's such a treat I mustn't waste any....

God help me. Vertically!! Vertically! distracted by images of scones with jam and cream

As a proper Cornish maid I split plain scones in half, spread with layer of strawberry jam and then top with lashings of Cornish clotted cream.
Tis 'ansome my lover.

butter local (well for me sunflower spread)
Strawberry jam
Clotted cream (preferably local)
I'm from Somerset an that's How's we do's it :)

Butter, clotted cream, jam.

I'm a bit late but that's how it has to go. You can't put lots of clotted cream on top of jam.

Actually I'd prefer damson jam to strawberry.
It's scone to rhyme to with 'own' up north. I can see why it's pronounced scone to rhyme with gone though, it does have the word 'one' in.

Foot & boot both have 'oot' but aren't pronounced the same. And don't get me started on 'ough'

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