I do the left picture. Purely from practical point. The jam spreads easily. The clotted cream is very claggy and can pull apart a crumbly scone. Particularly if the scone is warm they seem more fragile.
I have it the Devon way, purely because in my experience, it tends to piss off stuck-up pompous monarchists who believe anything done/preferred by the royal family must be the correct way and that no other variations are acceptable.
The Devon way – the cream feels more like a substitute for butter which would go on first, the cream has less traction on jam than jam has on cream, making the other way less practical, and visually it looks better to have the dash of red on top – nobody says “stick a cherry underneath so no one can see it”.
I eat mine cream, jam then scone. I dollop clotted cream into a tea cup, poor on the jam then crumble up a scone on top.
This started as a facetious post but now I realise that if it was served with earl grey scented smoke and a strawberry compote it would probably be on The Great British Menu
The amount of times I’ve seen some idiot do it the cornish way and the cream slowly slides off whole they’re holding it and not paying attention while talking to someone isn’t very high but it’s weird I’ve seen it so much.
Does anyone who lives outside of the west country really care.
Eat your cream tea however you please.
If you find yourself saying one way is wrong then I think you need to have a long hard look at yourself in the mirror.
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I do the left picture. Purely from practical point. The jam spreads easily. The clotted cream is very claggy and can pull apart a crumbly scone. Particularly if the scone is warm they seem more fragile.
I have it the Devon way, purely because in my experience, it tends to piss off stuck-up pompous monarchists who believe anything done/preferred by the royal family must be the correct way and that no other variations are acceptable.
The Devon way – the cream feels more like a substitute for butter which would go on first, the cream has less traction on jam than jam has on cream, making the other way less practical, and visually it looks better to have the dash of red on top – nobody says “stick a cherry underneath so no one can see it”.
I eat mine cream, jam then scone. I dollop clotted cream into a tea cup, poor on the jam then crumble up a scone on top.
This started as a facetious post but now I realise that if it was served with earl grey scented smoke and a strawberry compote it would probably be on The Great British Menu
The amount of times I’ve seen some idiot do it the cornish way and the cream slowly slides off whole they’re holding it and not paying attention while talking to someone isn’t very high but it’s weird I’ve seen it so much.
Does anyone who lives outside of the west country really care.
Eat your cream tea however you please.
If you find yourself saying one way is wrong then I think you need to have a long hard look at yourself in the mirror.
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