To ask: Jam first or cream first?

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I put jam on my scone first then a dollop of cream.

Aesthetically it's not very pretty because the redness of the jam is obscured. But practically it makes sense. And it all comes out the same in the end so what's the point of making it look all pretty.

What do you do?

Same as you - jam then cream.

Jam then cream

Jam on one side and cream on the other.

I could just eat a clotted cream scone now... Yum!

Jam then cream.

and scone to rhyme with throne

I wonder if those who have it wrong also say it wrong

isn't it something to do with if you are from/in Devon or Cornwall?

Scone as in "gone" here I'm afraid Fenella...and that's the correct way.

Jam only, no cream my West Country DH despairs

Cream then jam (Devon lass here) is the right way

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Jam then cream. Also scone rhyming with "gone".

butter cream and jam. How my (Devon born) nan would have.

Jam then cream, cos I sometimes put strawberries on top too, and they sit better on cream. And scone to rhyme with gone

Cream then jam. All day. And scone as in gone.

Cream then jam. All day. And scone as in gone.

Jam then cream and it's scone as in grown

Jam then cream. Scone as in gone.

It's throne.

don't make me come over there...

Rather unsurprisingly I'm saying cream then jam!

Cream first you bunch of heathens

Jam first, so the cream doesn't melt! And scone like throne

Definitely cream then jam. It's just easier & less messy. and you can slather a massive lump of cream on, make the top all bumpy & then it holds the jam perfectly.
Scone rhymes with gone.

Oh god, I want a scone. day 4 of a soup & yogurt only pre-op diet, 9 days to go

I do cream then jam but I would prefer if you could do jam them cream..wink

There is good reason - taps nose

Are you in Cornwall. If so jam then cream.
Are you in Devon. If so cream then jam.
Are you in west Devon. If so then it is permitted to replace jam with honey or treacle and call the resulting gorgeousness "thunder and lightning".

Are you somewhere else. If so, no one cares what order, but as clotted cream is harder to come by you may be given more jam than cream.

But to make cream before jam work you either need ridiculously stiff cream or ridiculously thin jam.
Scone as in Gone, jam before cream, with butter and tea, not coffee.

We had a reading at our wedding with the word scone in it. The person we asked to do it for us was a mispronouncer: it would have ruined the rhythm of the poem so we locked her in a room until she got it right!!! Mwahahaha

If its clotted cream, then its cream then jam. If whipped cream, jam then cream.