Minute amounts of cream in cream teas

[Orangeanddemons]

I am a bit of a cream tea conessuier. And it is now my experience that the amounts of cream for these is definitely shrinking. I had one today, with the equivalent of about 2 level tsps cream. I've given up on M and S as the amount they use these days is minuscule.

I'm sure a cream scone should have lots of cream shouldn't it?

I have in the past requested a second mini pot of cream for my scone. Hate a dry scone.

Yes it should, lots of lovely thick clotted cream.

The worst one I had was served with squirty cream from a can!!!!

We've had a cream tea the last few days as the pot of clotted cream was bigger than I realised... oops. :)

Yanbu! Meanness in a cream tea is not to be tolerated.

Oh, I've had those abominations. But how much cream is the correct amount. I has a summer pudding a couple of days ago, served with cream. It as actually 1 teaspoon cream and the pudding was too dry to eat. This surely cannot be right?

Yanbu. Your annoyance over the amount of cream a scone needs is very reasonable.

However, as a cream tea connesuier, you will know that as wonderful as M&S is, it's never going to hit the cream tea mark properly. There is no excuse for not enough cream though. Ever.

You are right. This is unacceptable.

Ideally, the volume of cream should be more or less equivalent to the volume of scone iykwim. That's my rule of thumb.

Yes, mine too.

There must be at least sufficient cream, if not surplus cream. Vital.

I made a lovely cream tea last weekend. Delicious b

Laurie you are so right!

YANBU

Slightly off topic but don't you also find that restaurants are very mean with gravy? I've had too many dry Sunday roasts to count.

Ideally, the volume of cream should be more or less equivalent to the volume of scone iykwim. That's my rule of thumb.

Sounds perfectly reasonable.

I posted my thoughts on the matter on another recent thread on the subject. I may have got a bit ranty.

The short version was that anyone caught serving an inadequate cream tea* should be retrained or banned for life from running a food establishment.

*stale scones, squirty cream, jam in cheap plastic mini cartons.