The great scone debate!

[Belinda @ Teagle]

I think @JP1 Deserves a prize for promoting Cornish produce @Belinda @ Teagle ?
Your factory tours are brilliant....perhaps a VIP tour for him?

Of course, he is welcome to come for a tour, once all the restrictions are lifted. Get a group together and we'll provide the cream teas.

 

[Belinda @ Teagle]

Got to be proper scalded cream as well

Can't beat fresh bread, layer of cream and a sprinkle of sugar for some crunch !

Hmmm! not tried this one. Is there any jam involved as well?

 

[Belinda @ Teagle]

Slice scone, cut two 1/8'' slabs of salted butter and install on either side, apply 1/2 to 3/4'' of clotted cream (with crust as mentioned above), make a broad, shallow depression in the cream and fill with home made strawberry jam to overflowing, eat each side individually and then have another one.

I'm feeling quite hungry now after that detailed description! lol

 

[JP1]

I think @JP1 Deserves a prize for promoting Cornish produce @Belinda @ Teagle ?
Your factory tours are brilliant....perhaps a VIP tour for him?

One day I am going to get my calendar aligned and come down for the Royal Cornwall Show and also take in some South Devon herd tours too

 

[Belinda @ Teagle]

One day I am going to get my calendar aligned and come down for the Royal Cornwall Show and also take in some South Devon herd tours too

If you come down for the Royal Cornwall Show you will be treated to Saffron cake too. lol

 

[Treg]

Of course, he is welcome to come for a tour, once all the restrictions are lifted. Get a group together and we'll provide the cream teas.

Thank you for that offer ......
....I knew I should of pushed for a bale shredder as a prize

 

[Sid]

Hmmm! not tried this one. Is there any jam involved as well?

No just bread cream and sugar.

 

[primmiemoo]

I bought a saffron cake from the supermarket "local food" section last year. At the checkout, the member of staff said she liked that sort of bread toasted and spread with butter ? ? ? ?

She sounded as though from up country, but still ... !

 

[An Gof]

Of course, he is welcome to come for a tour, once all the restrictions are lifted. Get a group together and we'll provide the cream teas.

Come on Belinda, go the whole hog and have a Philp's Pasty for starters

 

[An Gof]

I bought a saffron cake from the supermarket "local food" section last year. At the checkout, the member of staff said she liked that sort of bread toasted and spread with butter ? ? ? ?

She sounded as though from up country, but still ... !

My wife makes a special "bread" and butter pudding where the bread is replaced by saffron cake ....'tis proper 'ansome

 

[fieldfarmer]

Of course, he is welcome to come for a tour, once all the restrictions are lifted. Get a group together and we'll provide the cream teas.

As long as you serve them the right way count me in !

 

[primmiemoo]

My wife makes a special "bread" and butter pudding where the bread is replaced by saffron cake ....'tis proper 'ansome

So do I, b- b- but ...

 

[An Gof]

So do I, b- b- but ...

Youm a Debn maid, Saffron cake is a Cornish thing

 

[primmiemoo]

Youm a Debn maid, Saffron cake is a Cornish thing

I might live in Debm, ...

 

[An Gof]

I might live in Debm, ...

Must be like a sentence ?????

 

[Sid]

I might live in Debm, ...

Gotta get some new blood lines on the cornish.
Or ewe weel end up wivf gert veet like a seal

 

[primmiemoo]

Gotta get some new blood lines on the cornish.
Or ewe weel end up wivf gert veet like a seal

My default look is Morgawr on a grumpy day.

 

[glow worm]

If you was proper proper Cornish they scones would be splits


Where's your etiquette man? You use the jam spoon and cream spoon to take a dollop of each and place on the side of your plate. You then use you side knife to apply, first the jam, and then the cream to the scone (or split if you proper Cornish). DO NOT under any circumstances use the knife to cut the scone in half, it should be broken in half by hand.

YES... BUT, very important this, Cream 1st, and it has to be PROPER thick clotted CORNISH cream, then jam on top, only strawberry jam mind,AND only put on scone enough for one mouthful at a time, thereby getting a LOT more cream and jam! If you have splits, they have to be proper soft splits, which are frequently called half rounds, NOT baps. Advantage of splits over scones .. bigger,so ability to get more of the essentials on, but more difficult to eat in public as altogether more squishy!! Agree that cutting a scone or split with a knife is pure sacrilege and just demonstrates that you wernt brought up right!

 

[glow worm]

I bought a saffron cake from the supermarket "local food" section last year. At the checkout, the member of staff said she liked that sort of bread toasted and spread with butter ? ? ? ?

She sounded as though from up country, but still ... !

Fresh thick Saffron cake spread with butter is extremely moreish but it is very nice toasted as well.

 

[An Gof]

All you need to know about cream tea etiquette with Colin Leggo