Scones. Jam then cream or cream then jam? I have solved it.

[IncompleteSenten]

In the interests of science, I put it to the test.

Jam first then cream or cream first then jam.

After extensive testing, I am happy to confirm that it makes no fucking difference whatsoever.

However, in the interests of science I will repeat the tests later on.

Oh, and just because I like to kick shit off on here...

It's scone to rhyme with throne, bone and zone.

No debate.

Been eating scones for 50+ years and have never had a problem. You are obviously not using enough cream - you need a girt big dollop!

Clotted cream first, jam on top, eat each half separately. And it rhymes with gone. Sorted!

We used to go regularly to one purveyor of cream teas. The strawberry jam was fantastic. I asked if it was home made it was just so good.

Nope it was bulk bought from the wholesaler, they showed me the jar.

Still one of the best cream teas around I've had in Cornwall

It's scone rhyming with gone otherwise the joke doesn't work!

And I say cream first, because cream is just early butter. Cream with a knife and a dollop of jam (raspberry, seeded please) with a spoon.

If you don't agree you're wrong. Soz.

Thank you for your hard work on this scientific analysis. Hours of your life have been nobly sacrificed for our benefit. We'd be nominating you for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square if not for your embarrassing relative.

Having said this, there is always further work to be done. Some incorrect restaurants have taken to serving sticky toffee pudding with toffee ice cream rather than vanilla - have you given any thoughts to your next thesis?

@IncompleteSenten what is your AIBU?

"AIBU if I piss off AIBU pedants?"

Clotted cream first as you are having it instead of butter.
Jam would start to sink into the scone.

pronounced scone to rhyme with gone.

Jam first, or lemon curd, no butter, then half a tub of Rodda's.
And scone as in gone!

I heard someone at the next table having this discussion in a National Trust cafe at the weekend and I groaned without realising I was doing it out loud, it’s such a tedious conversation, why does it matter, it all goes down the same way?!

Cream is just immature butter so that goes first then jam - obvious really no one makes toast by putting jam on then butter

Voice of reason.

Also scone rhymes with cone.

i had one today so i must know. Also husband does jam first and he’s universally incorrect.

Exactly this!! I don't care that the cream is 'supposed' to first because of the fat being on the scone. I don't even care which'eats best'. I simply care about keeping them both on utopia!

@IncompleteSenten however, considerable testing is totally reasonable, as long as the teapot is regularly topped up!!

My DD are 4 scones today for lunch.

Scone (pr. Sconn) salted butter, strawberry jam. Yum. (No cream, cream is awful).

It's scone to rhyme with gone.

Cream first makes sense as it's essentially replacing butter and you'd never put butter on top of jam.

@HappiestSleeping

where is your thread police certificate?

Oh and Scon. That's all.

So if the cream is replacing butter, would I be wrong to do cream, jam and then more cream on top??

My DH dared to serve my cream tea with coffee! Is there anything I can do about this gross error? (I don't tell him how to prepare haggis, neeps and tatties).

Lost me at the pronunciation bit but the correct way is butter, jam then cream. Obviously.

Well now there’s a thought to ponder. I like your style.

Clotted cream on one half (because it spreads and sticks).

Jam on the other.

Put the two halves together then cut the reassembled scone through the middle of both.

Put into mouth with both sides up.

Cream is on top, jam is on top, you get a creamy, jammy scone (or you go for the vastly superior splits that are already cut that way and just pile it all in on the left/right as applicable).

I've solved the pan-Tamar warfare in that one act of diplomacy.

It's jam first then clotted cream. An earlier pp mentioned that spreading cream on jam is difficult - now spreading is the problem, you need to dollop.

Oh and scone is pronounced like throne. I was taught at school many, many years ago that the "e" on the end of a word is a "magic e" which makes the vowel say it's name (I'm going to assume that gone is the word not following the rules)

If you put cream on first there's no place for butter. Slightly salted butter onto the scone first makes a huge difference to the taste experience and the jam has to go between the butter and the cream.

However within my family we have established that the only opinion that matters on the question of how to construct the layers is the person who will eat that scone and if they do it in a different order they aren't wrong or evil or totally missing the point of a cream tea, they just have different tastes. Commentary on other people's choices is therefore a forbidden topic of conversation as no one should be criticised for their personal food choices that don't affect anyone else.

Whether you pronounce it to rhyme with gone or bone makes no difference at all though.

Jam then cream😋