Toasted tiger bread with butter and jam...lighthearted.

[Flannelfeet]

As the title says. Toasted till dark but not burnt tiger bread with lashings of salted butter and a thick spread of extra special strawberry jam. Am I being an unreasonable weirdo with both butter and jam? Or am I a very reasonable buttery jam munching slavery carb muncher? How do you take yours? If you like toast/butter/jam? Or too scared and just toast/jam. 😃

Noooo I'm trying to lose weight you bastards <dribble>

Can I have a day off...

jam and cream cheese is my favourite

I would use raspberry conserve myself…

Yes , but with butter and RASPBERRY jam 😋

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I can allow that - it feels wrong to me, but if others wish to indulge...

Chocolate spread straight onto naked toast also feels wrong... that I cannot permit. This is a Pro-Butter Regime!

How's everyone feeling about butter - jam - clotted cream on scones?

Its butter, clotted cream and then jam

And I will fight you over this if you disagree.

Outside!!!

Of course toast is buttered before anything goes on top of it - that's the rules !

My faves are Aldi blackcurrant jam next or if in savoury mood a smidge of marmite. Also Aldi maple butter (after normal buttter) on top is a look so pretty damn good.

Jam on its own would seem dry?! You need the butter to moisten the toast. Must be tiptree jam though, or homemade 🥰

Skip the butter and go for St Dalfour reduced sugar conserve. Expensive, smaller than standard jar, but totally worth it.

With garlic butter and cheese. None of this 'jam' nonsense.

Something else for me to try 😋

Currently on a pre-holiday diet and now can't think of anything I want to eat more. We have tiger bread in the cupboard too.... groan!

You've just unlocked a memory of the antenatal ward with my youngest. Mostly it was scary but in the evenings we used to take it in turns to make a mountain of toast with butter and jam and go and sit with the lady on bed rest and eat it all. The lady's husband used to phone her and ask what the racket was and she'd say "it's the August gang and Ellie" (I was the only one due in July) and we'd all shout hi to him. Good times.

Whenever dh is working away i always treat myself to a pot of really good strawberry jam with the big lumps of strawberry in. I can cope with the day on my own with all the dc if i have decent jam. Normally i have to have tesco own brand because we go through a lot of it.

LTB!!!! 😂 😂 😂

I will if I must but, hear me out...

Why put fat against fat - surely fat - sugar - fat, to make the best of all the ingredients.

Its a simple matter of science and engineering - butter first, this protects the scone against the osmotic effect of the sugar syrup in the jam, which would otherwise draw precious moisture from the scone giving it an unpleasant texture to the cut surface.

Then the jam, then a big blob of cream, because of course it's really impossible to spread the heavy cream onto the jam, you have to spoon/pile/blob.

This gives you distinct layers so you get all the flavour - gets the best out of the varying viscosities and spreadability of the three ingredients - allows you to pile on whatever quantity you wish (or dare) of each.

I am no fluffy headed jam first purist - if (for the sake of argument and it would be a terrible tragedy of course) one had NO BUTTER... and yet scones and jam and cream were to be had and it was an emergency...

Then cream followed by jam would be acceptable, it follows the 'fat before sugar' rule, waterproofing the scone surface against the sugar syrup.

Salted butter + sugar + cinnamon

It's good to have a clear policy on these things. Ideally based in science. It's how I roll.

😆 🤣 😂 ooohhhhh now a scone, its got to have a thick spreading of butter, jam and a great big dod of clotted cream 😋

I’d forego the jam - but crusty white bread and salty butter is on my death row meal list

I’m in, bloody lovely.

Used to always have it with butter but now I don't like it. So YANBU, but I don't like it.