Please help settle the debate!

[amrscot]

A bit of a weird one but me and DP can't decide who is right

Which side of the potato cake would you butter!? The smooth side or the rough side?

I've attached pictures, I always butter the smooth side but he says I'm doing it wrong.

My granny made tattie scones which were very thin. We ate them buttered and rolled up with the buttered side on the inside.

Nope tattie scones are for frying, have them with a fry, or with an egg or a square sausage on a roll the Scottish way.

Never buttered a potato scone in my life so my answer would be neither!!

(However if I were to be some kind of animal and butter it - it would be the rough side. My reasoning would be that the smooth side is the side that was facing down in the first place when it was made)

Its a bit like which is the right way

cream on top of the scone or jam 1st.

I have bought myself some for the first time in ages. I'm having a mini fry up tomorrow morning. It'll be missing soda bread which I can't get in my local supermarkets.
My friend used to microwave hers and then butter. They definitely get fried. Not toasted and buttered. No marmite or cheese!

Tattie scones belong in morning rolls with bacon, fried egg and ketchup

I'm a Weegie in Aus - I need to either pay $12-14 for 4 (when the bloody butcher gets his Scottish stuff in) or make my own. 😫

They should either be eaten raw with jam, no butter as afternoon tea, fried with a full Scottish breakfast (tattie scone, bacon, square slice, a link, black pudding, fruit pudding, sliced haggis, a fried tomato and lashings of ketchup), or fried on a bread roll with melted cheese, bacon optional, and again lots of ketchup!

Jam goes on the rough side, and now I need to wait until the butcher opens on Monday to try to get some!!

No either fried on the side of a full cooked breakfast or put in the toaster and then butter on the slightly raised side so it melts down your fingers when you eat it.

Butter the smooth side - it’s the only right way to do it!

I always fry potato cakes usually with eggs, bacon, sausage, maybe a tomato as well.

Thought the pictures showed crumpets and was getting the rages over the sacrilege of buttering the smooth side - always butter the holey side which is obviously there to increase the surface area for some good butter loving!

This is what potato cake means here in Aus - I was so confused about what had happened to your PC when I saw your pictures until I realised it meant something different there lol.

@vodkagirl - why would people put the jam on top of the cream?

I thought there was only one way to do that, jam first or it will slide off?

@StoppinBy - where in Aus are you? They're scallops where I am.

@where - you must be a weird New South Walian? I am in Vic, scallops are from the sea and Potato Cakes are a F & C essential lol.

Why would you put a fried wedge of potato in a roll with egg and bacon? Surely the egg and bacon is enough , potatoes too feels like carb overload or am I really missing out on something?

I have always wondered - how do you order actual fish scallops if you call potato cakes scallops?

Lorne sausage , tattie scone and a scoot-n-oot

@LagunaBubbles

Thank god someone gave its proper name..... I had no idea what a potato cake was.

Agree, fried with square sausage, black pudding and an egg

Have I stumbled upon a twilight zone of all fucking square food????? Wtf?????

Potato cakes, square sausage I don't understand 😂😂

Yum! Fried with butter on - rough side.

I love potato cakes and always butter the smooth side

Why would you put a fried wedge of potato in a roll with egg and bacon? Surely the egg and bacon is enough , potatoes too feels like carb overload or am I really missing out on something?

Nope a Macaroni pie is carb overload! Yup you read it right .... macaroni cheese in a pie! Bliss!

Ps you don't butter a tattie scone, fry it with square sausage, haggis and egg!

Butter. A potato cake. I've heard it all now. Madness

StoppinBy I would call that a potato fritter

Definitely potato cake, must be grilled and swimming with butter on the smooth side. (Must buy some today).