Having seen it mentioned in another thread thought it would be an ideal opportunity to put this one to bed...

CREAM first JAM second

Cream is dairy - butter is dairy

Jam is a topping...

One assumes those that get it wrong (down there) put jam on toast and then butter!

Steve
N Devon 

As much as I admire the cream = butter argument it's not one I'd go along with. Toast is not cake so the same rules can't apply!

Everyone knows with cakes such a scones or Victoria Sponges, it's jam first, then cream so you get a more even layer of each.

My daughter has the best of both worlds - one half she does jam first, the other half cream first.

More importantly, it is scone rhymes with gone, or rhymes with bone?


Regardless of personal choices, I can recommend the scones at the face on the Bure Valley Railway. Home made, HUGE, very tasty and next door to trains and their model shop. Perfect!

There's a simple solution - after splitting your scone, mentally divide the lower part into two halves and put jam on one "half", cream on the other, then add cream and jam on top of them respectively.

Then whack the top on and scoff it right down 

Just forget the cream

Well there is now a whole new topic on a scone (gone) being a cake...

Honestly have never thought of them as cake but as something in the bread area maybe...

 Couldn't see an icon of a can of worms 

Quote from: Fardap on August 19, 2025, 12:09:52 PMJam is a topping...

The jam is not a topping in Bakewell tart, Victoria sponge cake and other deserts.

How could it be any other way than cream first (instead of butter) and then jam. Only a madman would butter something with jam and then put cream on top, surely?!

Dave (runs for cover.....)

My wife used to be a primary school teacher in a small town called Scone in the Hunter Valley here in NSW.

Dunno which side they put the jam on 

To me, it's much less messy to put the jam on first then the cream on the jam.
(And I'm a 'rhymes with stone' person)

Put the jam or cream on however you like, it doesn't matter. When you take a bite it all goes in yer gob at the same time, so what's the issue?

Some people need to get out more... 

Cheers,

Chris

According to my other half they are supposed to be savoury not sweet, you put cheese and the like in them, soak them in gravy and call them "biscuits"

Having moved from Cornwall to Devon some fifteen months ago I have no idea where my loyalties lie regarding jam or cream on top.

However, it's no great problem to me as I don't like cream.

I much prefer cheese scones anyway. Warmed through, and slathered in butter, so jam & cream don't really come into it

Quote from: EtchedPixels on August 19, 2025, 03:23:17 PMAccording to my other half they are supposed to be savoury not sweet, you put cheese and the like in them, soak them in gravy and call them "biscuits"

I think that is the US style where they call the same thing biscuits and have with breakfast.

My mum used to do amazing cheese scones and cheese and bacon (bits) scones, so agree savoury is great... but sweet works as well - fruit scones obvious for that one.

Scones are like a culinary hand grenade anyway in discussions