Cream or jam first

Jam then cream, but no butter. The cream ‘sticks’ on better with jam underneath.

I must admit to being a Devonshire girl - cream first (as it resembles butter to me, being a Canadian*), then jam.

*While I live in Canada and a proper cream tea isn't a thing here, we have visited Britain twice as Hubby is an ex-pat. I have had a proper cream tea while we were there.

My old Dad, didn't stand on ceremony for anything, he would eat ham butties for breakfast, apple pie anytime (which I used to have to vet, as he wouldn't put it in the fridge, I'd find it mouldy and his answer would be "oh just cut off the bit that's bad, never had these problems in my younger days"!! Then his final words would be "it doesn't matter which you eat first it all ends up together in your belly, so just enjoy it as you eat it"
So I know what he would say about this debate......eat and enjoy whichever way you want to.

I'm different from most in that butter goes on first then jam topped with cream. If not a cream scone, no way could I eat a scone with just jam.

Can't stand either, so just Flora marge for me, as long as the scones are plain, no fruit

kjmpde

thankfully I don't like cream (where is the taste?) so just jam. BUT although I live in Devon it would be the Cornish way - jam first and then cream. Surely the jam slides off the cream ?

Not if it's proper jam with fruit pieces.

We put butter on (greedy pigs!) then jam, then cream. I know cream last is the Cornish way, so as we spend a lot of time in Devon, we try to sit in a quiet corner of any tea room we frequent (or used to, when life was normal), so as not to cause offence!

Jam under cream that way you can have more cream

Jam then cream.

Regarding Ind Coope, my family ran a pub owned by them during the war. When she talked about it, my mum pronounced Ind to rhyme with "bind." I presume that this was how the bosses pronounced it.

most people don't ordinarily have cream at home, do they.
My MIL ate clotted cream every day.
She used to make her own when milk was delivered and poured into your own jugs.

but in most cases isn't it just butter/scrape anyway.
unless having a posh tea in a hotel, they are bought from supermarket and eaten with butter/scrape to be less dry.
most people don't ordinarily have cream at home, do they.
i guess more have jam, but we didn't.
i'm obviously not of this culture.

I don't care - which ever way I'll eat it!

Gosh....what a scintillating discussion....hahaha

thankfully I don't like cream (where is the taste?) so just jam. BUT although I live in Devon it would be the Cornish way - jam first and then cream. Surely the jam slides off the cream ?

i don't think i ever ate a scone til i was a teenager.
didn't particularly like them, seemed a bit stodgy.
we never had cream at home, and only occasionally jam.
i didn't know about the strong feelings around it's construction until recently.
it's not really serious, is it, just a kind of long-running joke.

Definitely jam first for me but l am from hundreds of miles away from the West Country, so what would l know?

Definitely Jam first for me

Butter, then jam, then cream lol. ?

No cream at all, thanks - the mere sight of clotted cream makes me heave.
I much prefer a cheese scone with butter - as long as it’s cheesy enough. Too often they aren’t. I swear that if the one I once had at a NT cafe had been shown a piece of cheese, that was it.

If pushed to support one way only, it has to be the Devon way.

Jam first, it’s just too messy trying to do it the other way round.
Anyway, what does it matter. Just do what suits you.

I am rather partial to a cheese scone though.

I'm having a fit of the vapours reading some of these!

Having lived both in Devon and Cornwall.....I split the scone, put jam on one half and cream on the other and squish them together, this seems the most equal way to do it?

Sorry, dont do either. Nice hot scone with butter and golden syrup