Scones and Teacakes

[Tashyboy]

Correct. Butter (must be butter, not some weird kind of substitute), then jam, then cream on top (must be clotted).
This is the Cornish way.
Cream then jam is the Devon way.
My wife grew up in Devon, and we live in Devon, but both eat our scones the Cornish way.

missis Clive has gone to the dark side re scones do Missis Clive’s family still talk to her

 

[pendodave]

I once had cheese scones with an onion chutney/jam from a cafe next to the ferry on Bute.
Lovely.

 

[Voyager EMH]

There must be three different ways to pronounce the word in question.

Because when you eat two of them, you go through these stages,

One scone done. (wun scun dun) ?

Scone alone. (yes, the correct way)

Scone gone. (scon gon) ?

 

[cliveb]

missis Clive has gone to the dark side re scones do Missis Clive’s family still talk to her

Mrs Clive's family also eat their scones the Cornish way.
BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT WAY!!!

And as it happens, Mrs Clive's sister has lived in Cornwall for the last 25 years or so. (But our scone consumption technique was established well before then).

 

[jim8flog]

When I was a kid we always had school dinners in the middle of the day. My favourite pudding was Semolina with jam.

Semolina was known as wall paper paste at my school.

 

[ExRabbit]

I have fruit scones a couple of times a week at lunchtime at home - I just cut them in half and butter both cut sides and then wash them down with tea.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Sounds like a P G Woodhouse novel.

Scones - butter first then, if I’m feeling decadent, jam on top (way back in the day when parents money was tight it was butter or jam but not both - old habits die hard ); teacakes - only ever butter.

 

[Tashyboy]

That was a 6/10.
The jam was rammel and not enough of it out of a plastic sachet.

 

[AmandaJR]

That was a 6/10.
The jam was rammel and not enough of it out of a plastic sachet.

Jam in a sachet seems wrong.

I rescued a hot cross bun from the freezer for my lunch. Thick butter, no jam...lovely.

 

[Tashyboy]

Jam in a sachet seems wrong.

I rescued a hot cross bun from the freezer for my lunch. Thick butter, no jam...lovely.

I had that coz they had run out of chip butties in the cafe