Cream or jam first

Thin layer of butter, then lots of jam. No cream.

Loislovesstewie. Do you need to shout who cares? It's a cream cake.
Eat it how you want.

nipsmum I love a cheese scone not often have you tried it with cream cheese and chutney its like a savoury version not to much of the cream cheese and just a teaspoon of the chutney a nice treat.

I spent years thinking that jam went on one half, and cream on the other!

Just received a Devon cream tea box as a birthday gift. It’s fabulous and it is always butter, strawberry jam and the delicious clotted cream on top. It is only logical! ?

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

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?

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

I am rather partial to a cheese scone though.

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.

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

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.

Butter, then jam, then cream lol. ?

Definitely Jam first for me

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

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.

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 ?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Jam under cream that way you can have more cream

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!

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.