Jam first or cream!!!

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  • SeasideBill
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    edited August 2021 #32

    Marys Pastys - Bakery in Grampound Road…. shops in Tresillian, St Austell and Mevagissey - they are very good! Almost as good as Aunt Avice’s (St Kew) which are the best pasties on the planet. 

  • DSB
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    edited August 2021 #33

    I think it was called The Cornish Oven, JK...  They weren't at all bad....

    David

  • DSB
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    edited August 2021 #34

    We were quite impressed TW,  and they are a lot closer to Globe Vale... the site we usually use in Redruth.  If you are that way, they might be worth a try TW.  I'd be interested in your feedback...

    David 

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2021 #35

    Yes, I know your site, David, and that is convenient.  We used to stay at Porthtowan Tourist Park just up the road way back in the mists of time.

    I'll let you know if we try them👍🏻

    The Cornish Oven is also in the old Barclays Bank premises at Pool next to MacSalvors.

     

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2021 #36

    Taken over the old smokery in Grampound, I think. We've not got around to trying them either.

  • moulesy
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    edited August 2021 #37

    On pastys (pasties?) anyone staying at the St Agnes site really should try the St Agnes Bakery giant steak pasty, our favourite.

    On cream teas, I admire anyone who can successfully spread jam on top of a sufficient layer of cream. Never managed it myself and, anyway, it's just plain wrong! laughing

  • redface
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    edited August 2021 #38

    Right or wrong, your taste buds and tongue's sensory cells will still detect both the cream and the jam no matter which ay round they are.

    When it is all down in your stomach - churning away, removing useful bits and delivering the waste to the back door, it really doesn't matter what was on top of what.

    Enjoy it either way round!

  • JollyKernow
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    edited August 2021 #39

    The fact is, the viscosity of a decent strawberry jam is a lot thicker than an equally decent clotted cream so it makes sense to get a nice slather of jam on before a bucket load of roddas finest. Cream to jam ratio should be 75 - 25. Ideallaughing

    JK

  • DSB
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    edited August 2021 #40

    Absolutely JK!  👍👍👍

    David

  • Rob2CathDavies
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    edited April 2022 #41

    Well we always think of clotted cream as one of our ‘five a day’.  After all, it is processed grass!

    We we’re disappointed to hear of the cancellation of the Devon/Cornwall Border music festival.  Apparently they couldn’t decide which band to have on first.  The Jam or the Cream.

     

    sorry.

  • DSB
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    edited April 2022 #42

    🤣🤣  Love the idea that clotted cream is one of the 'five a day'....

    On a different tag....  my wife sent me to the Co-Op to pick up one or two items of food last night.  When she unpacked the bag, she (surprisingly) found a container of Rhoddas Clotted Cream.  I have absolutely no idea what possessed me to put the Rhoddas in the basket... it wouldn't have been so bad had I have bought something to eat it with.. but nothing!... just the Rhoddas!! 🤣🤣🤣

    David

  • cyberyacht
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    edited April 2022 #43

    Has this old 'which is first' chestnut been dragged out of retirement again? As Rhett Butler said "Frankly, my dear....."

  • ABM
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    edited April 2022 #44

    CY, I think it was originally  completed with :--

    " Frankly, my Dear, just spread it around "

  • ChocolateTrees
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    edited April 2022 #45

    It's an important question with a correct answer. Rutherford and Fry examined it in a Curious Case here.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001b8b

     

  • redface
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    edited May 2022 #46

    Hey - it is food, goes down the gut which makes a right mess when the stomach churns and looks nothing like the original input.

    It really doesn't matter!

  • Cornersteady
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    edited May 2022 #47

    yes but it has to pass some taste buds first and on mine jam then cream tastes better. I've done numerous tests over the years - some with my eyes closed in case that made a differencesmile

  • redface
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    edited May 2022 #48

    Well, I have tried both ways round and decided that I like the three ingredients no matter which way round they hit the taste buds.

    Scone jam and cream - delicious provided you are outside, in the fresh air and it is sunny!

    Indoors on a grey day - not so brill!

     

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2022 #49

    Cream, jam, cream

  • DSB
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    edited May 2022 #50

    LOL 😀😀

    ....or for special occasions, what about: cream, jam, cream, jam, cream....  🤣🤣🤣🤣

    David

     

  • brue
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    edited May 2022 #51

    Or a good cheese scone if you like something savoury. Excellent tasty ones at NT Montacute House. wink (blatant Somerset advert, others are available. )

  • DSB
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    edited May 2022 #52

    ......ade with Snowdonia Cheese, Brue.....!!  I bet ABM (Brian) doesn't spot this post.    🤣🤣

    David

  • ABM
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    edited May 2022 #53

    Only took me an hour, David, you really must give me credit for hunting posts out almost like a truffle hound  !!

  • DSB
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    edited May 2022 #54

    I'm impressed, Brian. 😀  I think I'll keep the Snowdonia Cheese to have with cheese biscuits though, and perhaps some relish.  I generally prefer 'sweet scones' with jam and lashings of Rhodda's....  with the jam on first.. 🤣🤣

    David

  • ADP1963
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    edited May 2022 #55

    If you had Haddock and a small portion of Chips in Beer, Devon, you couldn't afford Scones ,Cream & Jam after.................................£14:85, apparently now the dearest in the country. I found out after I bought them last week . yell

  • ABM
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    edited May 2022 #56

    I hate Chips in BEER, ADP,  much prefer pickled onions and Sarsons Vinegar  !! innocent

  • ADP1963
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    edited May 2022 #57

    I too hate Chips in Beer now at that price ABM. Pickled Onions repeat on me and that would be the worst thing that could happen......................repeating Fish & Chips in Beer at £14:85 yell

  • eyebrowsb
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    edited May 2022 #58

    I'll be making cheese scones for the Jubilee celebrations.  I make mine with a 50/50 mix of tasty Lancashire and mature Cheddar.  As a savoury filling I'm going to offer cream cheese and tomato chutney.  Cream cheese or chutney first? smile

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2022 #59

    Heresy! 😂😂😂😂

  • eyebrowsb
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    edited May 2022 #60

    laughing cool  That's just for those who prefer a savoury scone.  I'll also be doing the more traditional scone with jam and cream ....... or cream and jam ......wink

  • TonyIshUK
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    edited May 2023 #61

    It’s those sneaky people in the West Country that seemed to claimed the scone as their own.

    it’s a well established fact ( recorded in Doomsday’s book of1065)  that the “Sussex Scone” was the original.

    The scone is two half’s or halves, whichever old English you prefer.

    One half cream topped by jam.
    The other jam topped by cream, Then the two halves pressed together to be eaten.

    I kid you not,

    rgds

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