Re scone topping order

[ObiJuanKenobi]

Mine is the left, DPs is the right.
Who is BU?

I guess you both need to do another one but swap to see which tastes better
But then you'd need to taste an evil Cornish combination.

Cream then jam, so left! Spread cream like thick butter, then a jam topping :)

For me, with clotted cream and Little Scarlet strawberry jam : scone, cream, jam as the jam is too runny to spread cream on. Fabulous.

With whipped cream or thick jam: scone, jam, cream

Yours is wrong.

Never ever have butter on a scone with jam and cream! If you think it needs it, frankly you haven't put enough cream on it

The butter holds the jam Olenna, then you dollop on as much clotted cream as the scone will take. The clotted cream always goes on top, and I've lived on both sides of the Tamar.

Am with CMOT on the correct jam - but no-one else is allowed any from my pot of Little Scarlet. You don't spread clotted cream on though, that's your error - you dollop it on with a spoon.

Scone, jam then cream. Aussie here.

I don't have much jam so I spread the jam thinly then dollop the cream. It wouldn't work for my ratios if I made it the other way round.

Definitely jam first, then cream on top. Lots and lots of cream and then even more cream. The scone it’s just a vehicle for cream, with the jam a concession towards fruit.

No butter when having jam & cream!!!!!

Why no butter Janaus I find lots of scones very dry, so the butter helps. Fresh from the oven scones are lush with butter melting slightly, then jam and cream. No need to cook again after scones, jam and cream.

scary but that's because you are applying the cream second. If you applied the cream CORRECTLY first you wouldn't need the butter.
And now I want a scone!

But it needs to be salted butter, then you get the contrast. Unsalted wouldn't work.

If you are from Devon then then you are correct, if your DH is from Cornwall then he is correct. If both these are true then then it is possible for you both to be correct in the interests of intercultural understanding.

If only one of the above is true then the spouse with no cultural link to either Devon or Cornwall should acknowledge the correctness and superiority of their spouses method whilst being allowed to choose and prefer the inferior method themselves as a tolerated perversion from the natural order of things.

If neither of you is from Devon or Cornwall then you should follow the local tradition when you are in Devon or Cornwall and can suit yourselves the rest of the time.

These rules have been carefully negotiated and applied within a number of couples who are among my extended family, thereby preventing a number of messy divorces.

Haha, as you've now discovered, your dh is correct because doing it his way, you can load the correct obscene amount of cream on top. There's never enough if it's done the other way around.

Yabvvvu though, as not only was your scone wrong, but your dhs has made me want some and we don't have any.

“If you applied the cream CORRECTLY first you wouldn't need the butter.”

Nope, butter and cream aren’t interchangeable... the butter is there because it tastes good.

It makes no difference. Just do what you want with your own food.

Jam and then cream. He is right.

No butter! Ugh

You are absolutely correct!

That said, your dp isn't so bad.... mine eats his like a sandwich. I'm thinking of leaving him.

If only one of the above is true then the spouse with no cultural link to either Devon or Cornwall should acknowledge the correctness and superiority of their spouses method whilst being allowed to choose and prefer the inferior method themselves as a tolerated perversion from the natural order of things.

This is our situation. What DH does when I am not with him is his business but I ensure he sticks to The Right Order Of The Universe when he's with me.

Definitely butter, jam and then a mountain of cream.....

BTW, OP - you put butter on top of the jam on toast as well??! Are you a mad woman??!

I don't put butter on top of jam toast no! Toast, butter, jam!

So sick of this inane conversation about bloody scones that people find so ‘hilarious’. Eat the thing any way you want.

Thank goodness for that - I thought the world was really going insane ha ha!