What did you buy today?

Tengu

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Jan 10, 2006
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Jam first, if you want to get invited to Royal garden parties...or Cornwall.

(Devon folk are perverse).

The Cornish use scones but the Devon splits.
 

bobnewboy

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Jul 2, 2014
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What I would like to buy today is clotted cream. Saw it in the movie Phantom Thread where Daniel Day-Lewis had it on scones for breakfast. Looked tasty.
Here in Somerset I can buy it all year round, but that doesn’t help you in Finland. You could try to make your own:

Make clotted cream

…but note that you will need to find the best cream available in your area that hasn’t been ‘ultra pasteurised’ - see the note in the recipe.

Also, as a Somersetian I can have the jam/clotted cream any way round I like :). However Nigel is correct in that proper clotted cream is so sticky that I find it best spread thickly on the scone first, with a thick blob of jam (my own of course!) on top. As a notional cream tea pervert, I much prefer some of my blackcurrant extra jam on top, as I find the sharpness of the jam perfectly offsets the richness of the cream. In a further twist, my lovely wife makes a more summery version of a cream tea with a small block of ice cream on a toasted scone instead of clotted cream. Jam still on top in any case!

Cheers, Bob
 
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plastic-ninja

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A decent fruit scone from Morrisons? I can taste the salt & baking powder already!
Absolutely horrid. Only scones worth eating are fresh from the oven with butter and real strawberry ( or potentially blackcurrant ) jam. If it’s a fruit scone you don’t really need jam; just butter.
If you really want to do the clotted cream and jam thing I’d recommend a Devonshire split rather than a plain scone. Better texture for jam & cream so you’re less likely to spill any of the precious filling.
 

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