[Closed] Scones

Ahhh...but, the Cornish would say that the Devonian method (that you prefer) is a way of hiding inferior cream!

Cheese Scones with butter and Marmite.

I like them toasted with lard spread on 'em 🙂

It tastes the same either way.

Butter only and maybe with some jam if only the highest quality of homemade strawberry.

Tssk, I thought you were a man of some standing.

Cornish is the only way.

scone/butter/jam/clotted cream/scone

Deffo cream first for me but to be honest if someone else wants to have it the other way around I am all for free choice and that. But then I am not from Devon or Cornwall and my whole essential being does not hinge on being right about this one small topic.

never tried it the Devon way. Either way is probably as good as the other TBH. 'tis a marvellous thing

Depends whether its a fruit scone or a plain scone.

If you put the jam on first, it's much harder to get the cream on.

Jam first Cream on top,And i am Cornish

nicolaisam - Member

Cream first jam on top,And i am Cornish

You've got til' midnight to cross the Tamar!

Just put it right :oops:,Bloody missus was talking to me as i was typing.

Prefer them with nothing on them. No butter, no jam and no cream - just scone .
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does this help????

its jam first !!!!!!! if you put cream on first (how you supposed to spread the ****in jam ? lol thats just Irish i tell thee...
hmmm could just eat one now after my muddy washed out ride this evening...

Hey, it's a scone - with cream and jam, either way has to be good...

Idiots! What matters is:-

Scones (as in Stones)

Scones (as in S-gones)

Scones (as in Scooooooones)

None of the above matters if you can't pronounce it properly!

Yer Tiz Capt'n ............ the proper (Cornish) way to have a scone, jam & clotted cream.

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Turn that upside down and it's the Devonshire way!

Turn that upside down and it's the Devonshire way!

Hey I'm from Cornwall so no chance of that happening is there 😆

Hey I'm from Cornwall so I am totally wrong when the topic of scones comes up.

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jam on both sides, cream in the middle

rhymes with gone

- you jokers need any more help ? 😉

Zoolander - Member

Prefer them with nothing on them. No butter, no jam and no cream - just scone .

shudder. dry. dry. dry.

As I'm married to a Cornishman, it'd be so wrong to have scones any other way than scone, jam and lashings of Rodda's!

If you were having a jam butty, would you put the butter on top of the jam ? No.

Same rules apply with a cream tea which is exactly the same thing but with increased pretentiousness.

Any ****in fruit in that scone and there'll be trouble too let me tell you.

rhymes with gone

Wrong......

Scone (rhyming with Stone) half
Thick layer of Strawberry Jam
Thick layer of clotted cream

Repeat for other half

Job done.

Well, at least that's how BA serve them in business class flights to the US.....

I just cut the scone (pronounced scon) in half, then I do cream then jam on one half, and jam then cream on the other :p

After paying £3.80 for a measly one scone cream tea in exmoor last week, (x4 people) we nipped down Tesco and bought 16 posh scones,(exactly the same as the finest ones, just a different sleeve with the writing rearranged) 250ml of proper clotted cream and some posh jam, and then stuffed ourselves for the next three days 🙂

I got a very disgusted look from the gf when we ran out of scones and I just dolloped jam on the leftover cream and hoovered it up 🙂 P.S There was nine of us on holiday so 16 scones wasn't as excessive as it sounds 🙂

I got a very disgusted look from the gf when we ran out of scones and I just dolloped jam on the leftover cream and hoovered it up P.S There was nine of us on holiday so 16 scones wasn't as excessive as it sounds

DrRS**** - Member

Scone (rhyming with Stone)

Tsk. It's from the gaelic [i]sgonn[/i] and it rhymes with [i]it's gone[/i]. Hence...

Q. What's the fastest cake in the world?
A. 's gone

ok how about the fishcake/scone scenerio ? just to complicate things even more :lol:... do you call them 'fish-cakes' or 'scones'.....
back in my day we called them 'scones'...'scone and chips' please ! (with scraps)... 😉 depending on which part of the country you lived in...
then i came to live in the 'Home of Singletrack' land and it was fish-cake n chips please ! 😉

The thing that really matters is the quality of the component parts.

The scone (rhymes with stone) should be home made, and preferably eaten whilst still warm (Not hot) out of the oven, and consumed in the kitchen that still smells of scones (Rhymed with stones) for added effect.

Jam should be home made (No supermarket muck) from home grown strawberries

I admit you'll have to buy butter (Not marg) and cream unless you happen to keep cows.

It matters little which order it all goes on, it's the quality that counts for everything.
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I am very passionate about scones (s-gones) and have two per day mid week, and up to 6 per day at weekends.
Sultana Scones are my favourite, but we get some weird combinations at my work:- Cheese (9/10), Treacle (9/10), Marsbar (5/10), Apple and Cinnamon (6/10), Cherry (1/10).

Doug

We deep fry them up here in Scotland.

But yes it's all in the ingredients. Home made scones with full fat milk and anchor butter, then eat them straight out of the oven, don't need to add anything.

I'm from Devon but prefer mine Cornish as I like to spread my jam evenly across the surface. Perhaps I should Devon up and spread the jam across the top half?

What Elaine said! Spread the jam and then heap the cream on as thick as you dare.

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I reccommend...

Butter on a cream scone (pron, scon)? Weird!

Best cherry scones are available at nickel end marina on derwent water just outside of Keswick, absolutely sublime.

what about the fishcake/scone scenerio i mentioned earlier in the thread..... i wud like your views on that too..interesting these kinda subjects 😉

If you were having a jam butty, would you put the butter on top of the jam ? No.

That's why you put butter on first, then jam, then cream. The only solution. Butter serves a different purpose from cream anyway, butter is basically something to stick things to the bread, whilst providing a nice flavour, cream is a nice topping for things. No point in using lovely thick clotted cream if you're just going to squish it all up.

I did empirical testing of the jam vs cream ordering, and the problem with cream then jam is that you can't get a decent amount of cream on, and you can't get the jam spread nice and evenly. The other way round, you can get a nice even spread of jam, and a decent quantity of cream. As a plus, you avoid mixing jam and cream on your utensils, which is nice if you're having a large number of scones one after the other.

Oh and sk-owns.

Sorted.

Joe

That's why you put butter on first, then jam, then cream

Sorry, what part does butter play in a cream tea ❓

Extreme west country delicacy fail

Raisins in your scone?

Isn't a proper scone without them...

(jam then cream)

Woppit, are you out of your little tiny mind? FRENCH jam on a scone? FRENCH? [b]FRENCH?[/b]

Get thee away from me, foul feind!

English strawberries (And raspberries) are the Best in The World. Of that there is no doubt, so therefore make THE BEST JAM. Remember that young man!

butter jam then cream...win, win ,win. heart fail(ure)!!! 😯

My lad has just brought some home from school that he made earlier, I'm gonna tet both methods................report later 🙂

both methods now tested, I go for jam then cream. Enhanced cream effect 🙂

For reference the Jam was hartleys the cream cornish cc

trailmonkey - Member

That's why you put butter on first, then jam, then cream

Sorry, what part does butter play in a cream tea

Here in Wales butter gets spread on everything - cream teas, fish fingers, cornflakes, absolutely everything. The thicker and saltier the better.

I'm with Mr Woppit.

Scon. Not Scown. Idiots.

cinnamon and rasin are the way forward, with a bit of butter

+1 for PeterPoddy above!

For me, it's got to be Devonian clotted cream, put on first of course, and then a smattering of Tiptree's divine Little Scarlet.
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