I put cream on one half then spread jam on the other half. Then I combine the two halves of scone together.
I think this is the method used in Devonwall...
That's completely the wrong way to do it, Pete!! The jam and cream should be on BOTH SIDES of the scone and you eat the two halves separately!
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It's true a Cornish cream tea, the jam goes on first and Cornish clotted cream only on the top. I spread a tiny layer of jam as I prefer to pop of heaps on Cornish clotted cream!
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Me too! I think, because we holidayed a lot in Cornwall from about 1984 - 1998 we naturally always put the jam on first. I've never understood the idea of putting jam on second - how would you spread the jam on the cream?!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
Funnily enough, back in Australia we nearly always refer to a cream tea as "Devonshire tea" — and yet I think most of us put the jam on the scone first, which makes it a Cornish tea!! (But please forgive us... we are upside down, you know. )
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I'm actually in Cornwall at the moment, funnily enough — just got here this evening and will be working my way back up through Devon and Somerset over the coming week for a nice little West Country holiday — but haven't had time for any cream teas yet. I'm a bit naughty when it comes to cream teas anyway. I definitely put the cream on top of the jam (wouldn't want my Cornish ancestors to roll in their graves, after all), but I don't overdo the cream or it interferes with the flavour of the jam — and I prefer raspberry jam to strawberry!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I also prefer raspberry jam - in fact I much prefer raspberries to strawberries. I've gone all through this summer without a strawberry, and I don't miss them at all!
Hope your weather is good this week, Courtenay - ice cream weather - and Cornish clotted cream ice cream at that!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
Mmmmm. The one thing better than clotted cream is clotted cream ice cream.
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
Jam first then cream! How are you supposed to spread jam onto cream anyway And also is it a sg-own or a sg-on?
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Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence
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A skon, to rhyme with con, certainly in my dialect, at least.
(What do you call a disappearing cake? 'S gone. )
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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And also is it a sg-own or a sg-on? 
