On the subject of scones I must mention the jam-first-cream-first war between Cornwall and Devon. For those who don’t know (and I recently met a bloke from Cornwall who didn’t even know you put cream and/or jam on scones… but he was a lawyer so that explains it), both these counties are renowned for their cream teas.
Should I now explain what a cream tea is? Oh come on – those of you who stumble here looking for SCONES rather than biscuits (nothing wrong with those!) will surely know what a cream tea is. And for those who stumble here by mistake – go Google it. There. I ain’t no Wikipedia.
Where were we? Jam or cream, thats right. Devonians say cream first and jam on top, the Cornwall folk go for jam first. No one’s right or wrong and it’s not actually so much of a ‘thing’ – they’re not up in arms about it and you won’t get banned from a tea room for following the wrong protocol. Personally I probably go for cream first – just so I don’t ram a jammy spoon into a bucket of clotted.
The picture is a cheat by the way – there’s butter on my scone there, clotted cream was out. But it’s an awfully decent scone albeit unorthodox: it has no butter in the mix and pineapple juice instead of milk. It turns out you can make scones pretty much out of anything. I just happened to see an interesting recipe for rose lemonade scones which inspired me to try this combination out. Not bad at all.