To ask which you think is the correct way to eat a scone?

[Syrinx89]

YABU - Cream then jam
YANBU - Jam then Cream

Depends if the scone is warm. If so then jam first to prevent the clotted cream melting.

No fruit in the scone, it's disgusting. Butter, jam and then cream

I can only think that the people who do jam before cream don't use proper clotted cream.

Do people think that there will be a random surge in scone sales in the supermarket after this thread? I know I'm craving one now...

For ease of spreading the thickest one goes on the bottom. Clotted cream is thicker than jam so that would go on first with jam on top. Whipped cream is thinner than jam so in that case the jam would go first with the cream on top.

Yes surely cream is too slippy to allow the jam to adhese on top?

Butter, jam, cream.
But if I have to take sides I'm going to join the cheese scone brigade.

@IceWings Whipped cream on a scone? Get out of here! 😂

It's no slippier than butter Lighten.

I've had a revolutionary idea - an outer ring of cream, with jam puddled in the middle. Then both are touching the base!

I would pop the jam on top, a decent quality jam doesn't need spreading. My reason being that jam goes on top of rice pudding and porridge so why not cream too?

@LightenUpSummer Like a bullseye!!

Oh dear, this could end in WWIII.
And now I want a scone! With jam then cream, obviously.

I don't think it matters how you layer it or how you pronounce it.

Scone, cream, jam.

The same way that it goes
Toast, butter, jam and not toast, jam, butter.

Wearywithteens Dribble?

@onionface Buuuuuut cream doesn't replace butter, it's something totally different! You wouldn't make a trifle and put the cream at the bottom...

Whoever introduced whipped cream into the debate needs to leave the room.

I spread inch thick clotted cream on the bottom and then spoon raspberry jam on the top. My family is cornish and I don't care if I don't do it their way, my way is better.

Ah, but do you CUT it, or just break it open??

Who are these jam first heathens? Spread clotted cream, then a dollop of jam in the middle. Yum 😋

BiscuitBarrels

This is going to be an absolute shitshow, there is no way I’m getting involved in this bag of badgers.

It will end worse than a Brexit thread when everyone’s been drinking Absinthe.

I like both sweet and savoury scones.

But, if jam and cream are in the offing, sweet, obviously.
Fruited or plain, I'm easy.

Of course there must be butter. Lots and lots of butter.
Salted.

And jam.
NOT... ahem...
Not raspberry. Nasty seeds.

Spread over the butter.

Then cream. Only - do you hear me?! - ONLY after the jam.

And the cream WILL be CLOTTED!!!!

It doesn't matter really, does it?

As long as you call it a "skonn" not a "skown".

I'm keeping schtum about how I pronounce "scone"... Too much trigger for one thread!!!

The correct way is to make them with cheese, and the cheese has to be right the way through the mixture not just a plain scone with a bit of melted cheese on top, then slice in half and serve warm with the butter all melting.

Definitely, proper cheese scones are the best. I hate it when places claim it is a cheese scone when it's in fact a sweet scone with a bit of cheese on top.