to think the jam goes first, then the cream

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Dh and I have just had a cream tea (I know, decedent for a Sunday night) and had our usual 'argument' about which order the jam and clotted cream goes on. I made them so I did them my way: Jam with clotted cream on top. This is obviously the right way! DH does the cream first, 'like butter', except at about 50 times the thickness (so not like butter then!).

I'm right, aren't I?

If it makes any difference DH is from Dorset, I know different counties do it differently (I'm not from the West Country but went on a lot of holidays to Cornwall as a child), but what is the general MN consensus?

As long as you don't add butter I am flexible on the jam/cream issue. Butter is just wrong.

I don't want a dollop of cream. That means you'd hardly get any at the edges and loads in the middle. A nice thick even layer of clotted cream with jam spread on top. If you can't spread the jam then the cream isn't good enough. And whipped cream in a cream tea should be a crime.