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

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Flannelfeet · 07/08/2025 18:47

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. 😃

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DeirdreChambersWhatACoincidence · 08/08/2025 17:33

Very occasionally I just have a loaf of shop white tiger bread, butter and strawberry jam for dinner.

Usually I make my own bread but nothing beats Tiger bread all fresh and delightful.

I have butter with peanut butter, and with chocolate spread. I'm not sorry.

TaborlinTheGreat · 08/08/2025 17:40

WiddlinDiddlin · 08/08/2025 05:15

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?

I've just made some bloody gluten-free scones. If I were able to eat cream grrr I would definitely have butter, jam and cream. As it is, I'm having butter and jam. Black cherry, as it's all I have in the house. I'd prefer raspberry for scone purposes, or strawberry as second choice. My scones are ok, but they didn't rise much and they taste a bit of dust, like most gf things.

soupyspoon · 08/08/2025 18:20

WiddlinDiddlin · 08/08/2025 13:06

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.

Ok you make a good argument I agree, but, there is no way I can get the amount of cream on the scone needed by blobbing it on the jam, hence why it must go on first. Theres just no way round this.

Rosscameasdoody · 08/08/2025 21:49

Louisetopaz21 · 07/08/2025 20:07

I am completely wild and love jam on yorkshire puddings 😁😁😁

I could get on board with that. My mum likes left over Yorkshire pud with sugar and lemon juice - her reasoning is that it’s pancakes in another form.

the5thgoldengirl · 08/08/2025 22:19

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Victoriouslyvictorious · 08/08/2025 23:08

What do they do to Tiger bread to get that crust?

NippyNinjaCrab · 09/08/2025 20:46

soupyspoon · 07/08/2025 21:23

Im the same, I cannot really eat bread. I can only tolerate small bits at a time. Massive shame

I've been not too bad with a particular loaf, it's a seeded Warburton one, anything else especially a roll/bap swells my stomach dammit! 😂

NippyNinjaCrab · 09/08/2025 20:47

Oooh lovely crusty bread, real butter and dip it in tomato soup! Slurp, that's super comforting yum xx

OneNeatBlueOrca · 11/08/2025 10:07

NippyNinjaCrab · 09/08/2025 20:47

Oooh lovely crusty bread, real butter and dip it in tomato soup! Slurp, that's super comforting yum xx

I like cheese on toast with tomato soup

Flannelfeet · 12/08/2025 18:17

Tonight its going to be a wee change to raspberry jam 😋 and loads of butter 😆 🤣

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madgreenlemons · 12/08/2025 20:17

A few decades ago I was doing a walking holiday on the Cornish coastal path and staying alternate nights camping and B&Bs. Camping was a bit grim and was reaaaallly looking forward to clean dry B&B luxury- then at the first B&B my walking mate had an upset stomach which kind of killed the vibe 🤢. Then the final B&B in this lovely old dear’s house in mousehole. No other ‘normal’ guests- just her grandkids who were staying for the weekend. I had been hankering after a full cooked English breakfast but instead the offer was a vast round table of every jam and preserve and about a million pieces of toast in racks. Plus butter in - naturally- a nice big butter dish. I had so much hunger built up from all the walking and camping - that between us we probably nailed an entire loaf, and tried every single topping on offer. I still think that was the best goddam breakfast I ever had!

Flannelfeet · 12/08/2025 21:27

madgreenlemons · 12/08/2025 20:17

A few decades ago I was doing a walking holiday on the Cornish coastal path and staying alternate nights camping and B&Bs. Camping was a bit grim and was reaaaallly looking forward to clean dry B&B luxury- then at the first B&B my walking mate had an upset stomach which kind of killed the vibe 🤢. Then the final B&B in this lovely old dear’s house in mousehole. No other ‘normal’ guests- just her grandkids who were staying for the weekend. I had been hankering after a full cooked English breakfast but instead the offer was a vast round table of every jam and preserve and about a million pieces of toast in racks. Plus butter in - naturally- a nice big butter dish. I had so much hunger built up from all the walking and camping - that between us we probably nailed an entire loaf, and tried every single topping on offer. I still think that was the best goddam breakfast I ever had!

Ohhhh that sounds amazing 😋.

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