Cream tea

[MissTwister]

Hi all

Does anyone know if it safe to have a cream tea with clotted cream? I am assuming it's not as many of them will be made with unpasteurised milk as from farms etc. what do you think?

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You could ask about the origin of the clotted cream. It's most unlikely to be artisanal and made from unpasteurised milk but better safe than sorry.

Apparently in the UK all clotted cream is made in a way that has to be equivalent to pasteurised by law. That's what wiki says anyway. I've been eating it, didn't cross my mind to be honest

If it's on the banned list I must have missed that. Oops! Unless you're getting it direct from the farm, if assume most commercially produced clotted cream is absolutely fine but you could ask

If it's commercial, it's pasteurised. You're fine :)

Hang on OP, was it not you who was recently advised by your GP not to holiday in Cornwall, as it was too far from any healthcare facilities?!

What is it with you and the West Country? Eh? Eh!!!!!

Really, we have pasteurisation and the internal combustion engine and everything down here. (scratches self and grunts) .

You have to scald (eg boil) cream to make clotted cream so it is safe to eat as boiling is hotter than pasteurisation temperature

Quite right, Stubbornstains, didn't that there snooty Mrs Cameron make sure she was in Cornwall for the birth of her last child? And give her a Cornish name and everything? We can do a lovely delivery here in the SW peninsula, even for a visitor, and we almost never forget ourselves enough to stuff the visitor into the large wicker effigy and set fire to it.

More's the pity, regarding your example bluestocking .

(by the way, I wonder if they've cottoned on that there's a cheese called St. Endellion yet?).

This wouldn't have ever occurred to me I'd eat it without a thought

Don't get me started, Stubborn, her twat of a husband was in our town the other day and didn't get so much as an egg thrown at him.

Bluestocking the only reason I moved here was to get the full-on wicker man birth experience, I am a bit bloody disgruntled now at the idea that I might not!

OP I think it's probably fine, at least from this sample size of one (1) pregnant woman who is eating some oh, pretty much every day....

I know where you li-iive now bluestocking! They found him a hermetically sealed warehouse to gurn at a vetted selection of supporters though, didn't they?!

I have to do my birth plan at my next MW appointment- thanks for reminding me to enquire about the wicker man birthing option cunt! Bit worried about NHS cutbacks ruling it out, but perhaps I can find instructions to make my own online? Although surely it should be a wicker birthing goddess, with mahoosive fanjo? .

Stubbornstains I think Make Your Own Wicker Birthing Goddess sounds like a ton more fun than any of the pre-natal classes I've come across so far.

I reckon some of the university students might be interested in it too. For extra credits, like! Very creative.

Mmmm had some today!!!

I am happy to co-ordinate a Make Your Own Wicker Birthing Goddess group. I reckon Windrush Willow would be our go-to hosts!

Hang on! I have nothing against Cornwall or the West Country! Blame my consultant for that - she said I shouldn't be an hour from a hospital with placenta previa!

All I can think about now is scones and clotted cream

All I can think about now is eating scones and clotted cream in my home-made wicker birthing goddess whilst chucking eggs at David Cameron.

Oh god I bloody hope it's not on the forbidden list, I've eaten about twenty creams teas so far and loved them all! I think it's my pregnancy 'thing'. I need one now.

Commercially produced clotted cream is fine because it's made with pasteurised milk.