Interesting one thrown up by Frank.....not literally.....Devonians seem to put the jam on the scone first, then top it with clotted cream. Whereas in Cornwall the cream goes on first and is topped by the jam. The Tamar divides opinion as well as many other things, clearly!
Yep, Doves right. In Devon cream on bottom and jam on top. The reason for this my nan said was that you could hide any particularly large dollops of cream under your jam, thus appearing less of a greedy gutts.?
as I said before I don't like cream but it occurs to me that it only matters if you don't put the lid back on your scone. If you put the lid on, it's only a matter of turning it upside down.
With regard to the open scone, I can see that there might be a problem. I suppose if you got it wrong, it would be like putting gravy under your bangers and mash.
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Think it's the other way around ........ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/poll/2010/may/20/cream-tea-scone-clotted-cream
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Yep, Doves right. In Devon cream on bottom and jam on top. The reason for this my nan said was that you could hide any particularly large dollops of cream under your jam, thus appearing less of a greedy gutts.?
When I have them Lily, you can't see either the jam or the scone under the huge pile of cream I put on them!
Hear hear bob. A man after my own clogged up artery busting heart!
I was told you put the clotted cream on first instead of butter
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Yuk! Jam then cream. It's the only way.
It is of course the other way around for Thunder & Lightning
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as I said before I don't like cream but it occurs to me that it only matters if you don't put the lid back on your scone. If you put the lid on, it's only a matter of turning it upside down.
With regard to the open scone, I can see that there might be a problem. I suppose if you got it wrong, it would be like putting gravy under your bangers and mash.
Just had to Google thunder and lightning Dove, must say that looks proper luvverly but very naughty.
... and it must be white pepper Muddle-up - none of your new fangled gritty black stuff
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