Cream or jam first

Having grown up in Scotland I would never even dream of putting cream on a scone.

I eat mine with butter or with butter and jam.

Speaking as another from Devon, it’s cream first - reasons could be -
Like as has been said, cream is acting as the butter and after all
it looks prettier - some cream and a blob of jam in the middle

My Mum was Devonian , like me, and my Dad was Cornish. I’d never heard such twaddle as having jam on the cream. It was, is, and always will be cream on top of the jam xxx

I'm from a Devon family so of course it absolutely has to be cream first!

As several people have said, the high-fat clotted cream should go on first to act like butter. Jam soaks into the scone. My brought-up-in-Devon mother didn’t do it like that, though.

Jam first then a dollop of cream ?

For me it’s Jam first then cream

Dare I say? I don't know - depends how the cookie crumbles - as they say;
Slice down the middle, cream on one, jam on t'other slap together. Job done.
Note to self: don't serve scones ?

Tch tch tch

I may have a sulk now and not speak to you kittylester

Butter indeed! ???

The lemonade recipe is easy to find on the internet and the scones are just right for putting butter, jam and then cream on.

I’m another for butter first then jam then cream, on two separate halves. The butter stops the jam from soaking into the scone. Mind you I’m Scottish although I just love the cream to be clotted cream ???

I am hopeless at baking scones.

A while ago I remember a Gransnetter posing a recipe which used lemonade which sounded interesting.

Made a few today, prompted by you lot. Out of the oven when I popped out - nothing to be seen on my return apart from sticky fingers , GD, guilty look DS and DH licking his lips !
Please be careful how you post, things could have become very nasty !

lovebeigecardigans1955

I used to live in Devon and do mine the Devon way, large dollops of cream first, then jam. Surely the cream is a substitute for butter and you wouldn't do that the other way round, would you? That would be plain daft. DH though, being contrary did his the other way.

Yep!
DH is a Devon boy and that's how he eats his.
I lived there for years and so do I!

muse

When I lived in Derbyshire, I put jam on first, whether it was fruit or plain scone. Now I'm in Cornwall, it's always clotted cream.

Biggest advantage of jam first, is that you can spread a good layer of jam over the whole half and then spread the cream over the top. A dollop of jam on top of the cream, stays as a dollop. Very difficult to spread it around. Jam and cream must reach the edge for me.

My favourite is scone - jam - clotted cream - halved strawberry.

Of course, each half of the scone has to be treated the same. Never make a scone sandwich

Now you’re just showing off!! ????

I do jam first but that's only for my own convenience and no 'religion'. I simply can't spread jam on top of cream with any success. Much too difficult (impossible even!) the other way.

I used to live in Devon and do mine the Devon way, large dollops of cream first, then jam. Surely the cream is a substitute for butter and you wouldn't do that the other way round, would you? That would be plain daft. DH though, being contrary did his the other way.

i rarely eat this kind of thing, but i remember when i did, having cut the scone in half, i alternated each half.
no strong preference, but is the sort of thing i do generally.
i didn't know it was such a fought-over decision.
i had originally thought cream ought to go first as it was in place of butter, as it's a dairy product, and you wouldn't put butter on top of jam, at least i wouldn't.
but then cream is more luxurious than jam, so the basic item might be seen as jam, and if you happen to have the delicacy of cream too, then that is added on top.
i don't mind, and am not from the south-west.
but i do prefer dark jam. though i don't buy any jam.

No jam for me , just cream . But if I did eat jam it would definitely be jam first .

Jam first for me, then cream on top

grumppa

Quite right, kittylester.

Don't encourage her grumppa

Butter indeed
Tch tch (goes off muttering) ..........

Definitely jam first, the other way looks wrong and I’d rather get cream on my nose than sticky jam.
BUT if I’m offered it set up the wrong way round, I’d happily eat it and I certainly wouldn’t criticise the provider.

Quite right, kittylester.

Scone with jam and cream? Don't mind what goes on first. Either way is delicious.

I'm a Londoner and say scone with the long 'o' as in blow, but my Scottish friend here says it with the short 'o' as in bobbin. I also say 'castle' differently to her 'carsell' for me, 'cassel' for her!