My family has Cornish roots: my wife's has Devon. We have survived 63 years of marriage by the simple expedient of never having cream teas.
Just add water.....
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I don’t have any skin is this game (everyone west of Dorset is a bit weird anyway) but cream as a base makes sense - if the cream is firmer than the jam. Otherwise basic engineering applies and the firmer jam goes on first, especially if someone is using cheap skate non clotted cream.
It’s true that clotted cream was once used as butter so cream first would seem logical.
It’s also true that I hadn’t heard that there was a debate/nuclear war over this issue until the 80’s. Folk just did what they wanted to, there was certainly no regional bias that I was aware of until then.
But - hey, it’s good Tourist Board stuff and fun to argue! Strange how many different threads manage to include the debate
I have only received squirted cream once on a “Gloucester Cream Tea”. Serves me right for asking!
Edited to add:
……. and a glass of tap water please.
It’s also true that I hadn’t heard that there was a debate/nuclear war over this issue until the 80’s. Folk just did what they wanted to, there was certainly no regional bias that I was aware of until then.
But - hey, it’s good Tourist Board stuff and fun to argue! Strange how many different threads manage to include the debate
I have only received squirted cream once on a “Gloucester Cream Tea”. Serves me right for asking!
Edited to add:
……. and a glass of tap water please.
What is wrong with you??Split scone in half.
Butter one side.
Jam on the other.
Add a slice of cheddar.
Put scone back together.
Little dollop of cream on top.
Needs a cake fork and spoon to eat it though
Until now Toddy, your posts have been sane, rational, helpful, amusing and sometimes tasty.
This is beyond what any rational human would put in their mouth.
Back to topic:
I took a pot of sourdough starter to the woods. With some friends to go with soup.
In my bag of dry ingredients was wholemeal and white bread flour.
Mix with shredded wild garlic, salt and water.
Shape into little flatbreads and bake straight onto the coals of the fire.
Not bad.
I took a pot of sourdough starter to the woods. With some friends to go with soup.
In my bag of dry ingredients was wholemeal and white bread flour.
Mix with shredded wild garlic, salt and water.
Shape into little flatbreads and bake straight onto the coals of the fire.
Not bad.
When I was an ESL, I used to get them to put the cheap packet noodles in a zip-lock bag. About twenty minutes before we were due to stop, we'd put hot water in the bags from a flask, seal them up, and they would keep them in their pockets. When we stopped, they would have something hot to eat, and they'd had a chance to warm their hands up on the meal as well. Beware dried noodles are sharp and can puncture the heaviest of zip-lock bags leading to wet and hot then cold pockets.
Si
Si
I shouldn't laugh; that's one of those good ideas that needs more forethought. Some of the heavy duty stand up and fill freezer bags might do it well though.
The thing about learning from experience is that somebody has to have had the experience for you to learn from. LOL.
Si
Life makes you take the exam before it gives you the lesson.
Treacle scone?
That sounds like something I need to eat.
With a mature cheddar.
Apols to the op.
I started to write out the recipe, then thought that surely someone's already done that.
This link explains them well
Treacle Scones
Your go-to recipe for traditional homemade Scottish Treacle Scones. Easy to make, with lots of tips and secrets to achieve the perfect scone.
bakingwithgranny.co.uk
Wensleydale (or Cheshire, at a push).Split scone in half.
Butter one side.
Jam on the other.
Add a slice ofcheddar.
Put scone back together.
Little dollop of cream on top.
Needs a cake fork and spoon to eat it though
Have 1kg of sosmix and will try something out at the weekend. Potato cakes look like something I can make in my van.
Sosmix recipes: https://sosmix.com/sosmix-recipes/
Sosmix recipes: https://sosmix.com/sosmix-recipes/
If you mix up S.R. flour and sugar with dried milk (nido's best, it's full fat) and a decent pinch of salt.
That will whisk up with water to make vegetarian type pancakes. They don't keep as well as those made with an egg but for ease of dried stuff add water = fairly decent hot fresh pancakes, it works
Did anyone ever do the beanburger version of sosmix? It could be made with an egg if you were vegetarian or oil if you were vegan and if properly hydrated, which took a while IIRC, was a very good fakeaway for the old Burger King beanburger, which I, as a commited carnivore, miss a lot. It came in a brown foil packet.
