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Shropshirelass Wed 28-Apr-21 08:56:05

Sainsbury’s have upset Cornwall by showing an advert for scones with the jam on top of the cream. How do you do yours? We are not Cornish but we do put the jam on first and then the cream, it is easier and just seems right.

leeds22 Fri 30-Apr-21 12:56:37

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

sweetcakes Fri 30-Apr-21 13:04:56

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

sweetcakes Fri 30-Apr-21 13:16:56

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.

Ealdemodor Fri 30-Apr-21 13:24:18

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

langelei Fri 30-Apr-21 13:26:17

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! ?

Kartush Fri 30-Apr-21 13:39:11

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

lemongrove Fri 30-Apr-21 13:40:25

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?

Callistemon Fri 30-Apr-21 13:45:39

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

Callistemon Fri 30-Apr-21 13:47:32

I am rather partial to a cheese scone though.

HannahLoisLuke Fri 30-Apr-21 13:49:38

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.

lemongrove Fri 30-Apr-21 13:50:41

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

Witzend Fri 30-Apr-21 13:54:37

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.

Clevedon Fri 30-Apr-21 13:54:50

Butter, then jam, then cream lol. ?

JdotJ Fri 30-Apr-21 14:38:46

Definitely Jam first for me

Musicgirl Fri 30-Apr-21 14:46:34

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

welbeck Fri 30-Apr-21 14:51:11

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.

kjmpde Fri 30-Apr-21 14:52:46

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 ?

Theoddbird Fri 30-Apr-21 15:05:36

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

pixie601 Fri 30-Apr-21 15:40:22

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

welbeck Fri 30-Apr-21 15:53:14

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.

Callistemon Fri 30-Apr-21 16:11:20

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.

Bluecat Fri 30-Apr-21 16:15:58

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.

Polly4t42 Fri 30-Apr-21 16:26:58

Jam under cream that way you can have more cream

Growing0ldDisgracefully Fri 30-Apr-21 16:36:55

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!

Loislovesstewie Fri 30-Apr-21 16:38:28

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.