FabSwingers.com forum: Cream teas: jam first of cream? And is it scone, or scone?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Following on from Hanky Panky's milk before or after thread - another in the same vein that has seen perfectly good friendships break down in the past:

When you have a cream tea and you're preparing your scone (pronounced 'scone' not 'scone' of course)* do you do it the PROPER way (Cornish) of jam first then clotted cream on top - or the frankly WRONG way of cream first then jam (like those strange types across the border in Devon)

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

** Jam first OR cream! That's what I meant in the thread title of course!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scone which rhymes with gone.

Jam 1st, topped with cream, not that I have it but if I could that's the correct way!

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

I go jam first but that is up to the individual.

However it is scone.

Just like it is bone, cone, dome, slone or tome.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

jam then cream.. separate spoons

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

its definitely a scone..

and i shove clotted cream on, then stick real sliced strawberries on top...jam is too sweet..and i never stick the top half of the scone back on top..i always shove more cream and strawberries on that half too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Following on from Hanky Panky's milk before or after thread - another in the same vein that has seen perfectly good friendships break down in the past:

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

You're right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hot out of the oven with butter on that melts. That'll do me.

Sarah

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"its definitely a scone..

I like your style.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Following on from Hanky Panky's milk before or after thread - another in the same vein that has seen perfectly good friendships break down in the past:

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

You're right

someone's got style! Remaining unblocked

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

It's Scone.

I spent my yoof in Devon so it's cream first (it is the buttery bit after all) and then jam. Ideally a little strawberry on top to finish it off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Skon here and just jam or a little butter.. cant stand cream

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I go jam first but that is up to the individual.

However it is scone.

Just like it is bone, cone, dome, slone or tome.

But not "gone"?

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

"its definitely a scone..

I like your style. "

yeah baby..

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's Scone.

I spent my yoof in Devon so it's cream first (it is the buttery bit after all) and then jam. Ideally a little strawberry on top to finish it off.

Definitely a wrong 'un right here ..

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

jam then cream scone as in cone

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I can safely say I don;t give a shit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I now down to you Dan you are correct

however I never put the top back on, I have two halves both loaded with jam and clotted cream

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I now down to you Dan you are correct

however I never put the top back on, I have two halves both loaded with jam and clotted cream

Bow down even

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jam first...anything else is just wrong.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

However, when I make them I am completely weird and use Orange juice instead of milk

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I now down to you Dan you are correct

however I never put the top back on, I have two halves both loaded with jam and clotted cream

Hell yeah of course! That's the proper way! No 'lid' .. 2 halves laden with jam (first!) then cream!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who in the name of all things delicious puts the cream on first !!!! What ???? I really cannot believe my eyes reading that ......think I may need therapy now.

So half the scoon!!!! Place jam on!!!!

Then cream !!!!

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Last time I treated myself to one was in a seafront tea shop, a bleeding seagull pinched it so it was definitely scon for good

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I can safely say I don;t give a shit

I'm shocked!! It's an essential life skill! (Jam first btw ..)

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Home made strawberry jam then cream.

Pronounced scone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't like cream so I only put jam on

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I don't like cream so I only put jam on

I'm surprised you even have the jam and not an apple.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

There is the other school of thought:

Cream, jam, cream

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By *ingle Beds LassWoman
over a year ago

Bedfordshire

"Scone which rhymes with gone.

Jam 1st, topped with cream, not that I have it but if I could that's the correct way!

This

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scone as in traffic cone or ice cream cone.

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Scone for me! I can't abide people who call it scone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scone as in own for a start.

Jam first then cream and currents not plain.

That is the law.

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Jam first. And it's a sc-own before you eat it, then it's scone (it's gone).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scone which rhymes with gone.

Jam 1st, topped with cream, not that I have it but if I could that's the correct way!

I quite agree

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

When it's scone it's gone

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

As for jam or cream .. I don't care as long as there's both

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"I now down to you Dan you are correct

however I never put the top back on, I have two halves both loaded with jam and clotted cream

Hell yeah of course! That's the proper way! No 'lid' .. 2 halves laden with jam (first!) then cream!

Definitely each half separate and jam first then cream.

How the hell does the jam stay on otherwise?

Nita

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Following on from Hanky Panky's milk before or after thread - another in the same vein that has seen perfectly good friendships break down in the past:

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

I am with you on this op

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By *vbride1963TV/TS
over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

Jam then cream on both half's mmm

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Following on from Hanky Panky's milk before or after thread - another in the same vein that has seen perfectly good friendships break down in the past:

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

Scone as in gone

Then it's .....

Butter, jam , cream.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's got to be jam then cream mmm nom nom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

for god sake stop arguing and just eat the damn things.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's cream first of course. You wouldn't put butter on top of your jam would you? Bleddy Cornish buggers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And Scoown innit. (with extra long oooo).

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

It's easier to balance the cream on top of the jam rather than vice versa

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"It's easier to balance the cream on top of the jam rather than vice versa"
you said that very condescendingly

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

It's scone... like con!

And jam then cream.

Anyone who says different is wrong.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"It's cream first of course. You wouldn't put butter on top of your jam would you? Bleddy Cornish buggers. "

Exactly!

I do want a scone now though.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Scone as in own for a start.

Jam first then cream and currents not plain.

That is the law. "

Close the thread! HighHeels has nailed it! GOT to be a sultana laden scone (sk-own) then jam then cream (NO butter mind!!).

It should be statutory law .. If we get 100,000 signatures haven't they got to debate it in Parliament?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

She said currents... not sultanas

She said currents as in electricity .... chortle

But I won't mention it ..... snigger....

it's not funny..... guffawww.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scone as in own for a start.

Jam first then cream and currents not plain.

That is the law.

Close the thread! HighHeels has nailed it! GOT to be a sultana laden scone (sk-own) then jam then cream (NO butter mind!!).

It should be statutory law .. If we get 100,000 signatures haven't they got to debate it in Parliament? "

Works for me. Deffo no butter, how jolly foolish of me to have overlooked this in Scone Protocol.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

High Voltage Scowns......

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"She said currents... not sultanas

She said currents as in electricity .... chortle

But I won't mention it ..... snigger....

it's not funny..... guffawww. "

ok HighHeels *almost* nailed it!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Huge amount of cream. Tiniest bit of jam, barely there.

And it's scone, not scon. It's got a magic e at the end!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's definitely scone!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's definitely scone!! "

Are you sure it's scone!? Lots of people disagree and think it's scone.

I'm firmly in the scone camp, me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's definitely scone!!

Are you sure it's scone!? Lots of people disagree and think it's scone.

I'm firmly in the scone camp, me."

I'm afraid I'll have to disagree

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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago

CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly)

"It's definitely scone!!

Are you sure it's scone!? Lots of people disagree and think it's scone.

I'm firmly in the scone camp, me."

It's definitely pronounced ... "scown" up here anyway..... and gotta be jam followed by cream.... can't spread jam on cream....

Unless it's all over my body mmmmm xxxx Suzi

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

It's only pronounced "skown" if you're one of those posh southern types, for us normal, none posh northerers.... its Scon...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its pronounced 'scon' and jam first then topped with cream. I must admit though, I do prefer them fresh out of the oven, still warm and with plenty of 'proper' butter.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

It's only pronounced "skown" if you're one of those posh southern types, for us normal, none posh northerers.... its Scon..."

Ooh controversial!!!!

I'd say 'Scon' was the posh way - us simple country boys (and I was called a country bumpkin t'other day by a fellow Fabber for pure legitimacy

) say 'Skown' .. I think you must be a posh Northerner

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

It's only pronounced "skown" if you're one of those posh southern types, for us normal, none posh northerers.... its Scon...

Ooh controversial!!!!

I'd say 'Scon' was the posh way - us simple country boys (and I was called a country bumpkin t'other day by a fellow Fabber for pure legitimacy

) say 'Skown' .. I think you must be a posh Northerner

Aye... appens you're right.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"She said currents... not sultanas

She said currents as in electricity .... chortle

But I won't mention it ..... snigger....

it's not funny..... guffawww.

ok HighHeels *almost* nailed it!!

Oh good golly. What a bimboid I am *hangs head in bad grammar shame*. Now on self imposed naughty step.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I want some scones now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cream first then jam on top. And scone as in cone.

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

And of course 'scone' is pronounced 'Skown' not 'Scon' otherwise you're definitely a wrong 'un.

I'm right aren't I? Let me know if you disagree so I can block you

It's only pronounced "skown" if you're one of those posh southern types, for us normal, none posh northerers.... its Scon..."

Yep. I say it the common scone like in gone. Not the long posh version of scone like in own or bone.

Two halves with strawberry jam and then cream on top.

This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well my lover, as Ive a few generations family connection to Falmouth, I would say cream on top. However, havin been raised an emmet I gets in a muddle that way and it slides right off see. What I do out of loyalty to both sides of my family is do one half Kernow, one half t'other. Ansum!

It's pronounced SKONN cos you look down and wonder where it skonn

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By *othingButCocoChanelWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

In the mood for scones. Havent had one in years. Going to make a batch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scone as in bone

Cream on top of jam

Anyone who does otherwise is a neanderthal

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By *luetezoCouple
over a year ago

by the beach

Cornish cream tea always jam first topped with cream, the people across the Tamar (Devon) do it the other way cream then jam .......... They are quite simply wrong !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i dont like a scone (on) in any way

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By *eliciousladyWoman
over a year ago

Sometimes U.K

"I go jam first..

However it is scone.

Just like it is bone, cone, dome

Exactly this

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

Ya don't get thunder before lightening so it must be cream first on a scone pronounced to rhyme with 'cone'.

Oh, and the scone (pronounced to rhyme with 'cone') should be a well risen containing little dried fruit And served slightly warm from the oven rather than microwaved to within an inch of its life.

Hmmmm....I want one now...

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