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Pronunciation : “Sc-on” or “Sc-own”?
Construction : With currants / Without currants
Presentation : Jam under cream / Cream under jam?
What tyres for a tea party with elderly relatives in my back garden?
Scone rhymes with gone.
Sc-on
Without raisins
Cream on top.
Top tip - honey or golden syrup instead of jam.
Sc-on
Fruit Scone
Makes no odds.
[i]Top tip - honey or golden syrup instead of jam. [/i]
heresy.
Jam under cream if you're in Cornwall, cream under jam if you're in Devon (I think that's right).
If you're in any other part of the country you've probably just smeared it all over your face while making animal noises so it's a bit of a moot point.
Sc-on unless your name ends with "the 3rd" or something similar.
Currents are best avoided. Currants on the other hand...
Honey? Bee poo? I think not.
If you pronounce it Sc-own, then you'll have your Northern Citizenship immediately revoked, and be cast out to the home counties
Sc-on
With out currants
Jam under cream
Bee poo?????? you sir have gone down in my estimation 🙁
Scone - as in rhymes with phone.
Any other pronunciation is just poncy southern talk!
Cream on top. Quite aside from that being the [i]correct[/i] method, the other way up requires you to spread rather than dollop the cream. A dollop is much more satisfying.
Sc-own, say it as its spelt.
With Currents
Jam under Cream. As it is easier to put the cream on the jam.
Top tip - honey or golden syrup instead of jam.heresy.
Try it, I dare you.
Is it a Welsh thing?
Scon. Without. Under.
Anything else is as bad as ketchup on sausages rather than HP....
As a poncy home counties dwelling Southerner, scon. Anything else is trying too hard.
And as for cream or jam first, you're really just arguing over which Southern county you prefer 😉
Pronunciation : Scon
Construction : With currants / Without currants - doesn't matter.
Presentation : Plate of scones with bowls of clotted cream and jam and leave the construction to the guests.
scon
with
whatever, I normally put so much on it all mingles anyway
Is it a Welsh thing?
No, it's a molgrips thing, being someone who is not especially keen on jam.
scon
cream under jam
STACKED HIGH!
Scon, then jam, and cream on top.
Just cos it's easier that way.
Honey? Bee poo? I think not.
Bee sick, innit?
bee sick????? philistine 😀
scown as you're northern
with fruit inside if possible (cheery is good)
iirc CFH says jam on top of cream, that fella sownds like he no's wot ee's talkin abowt in ettyket sitchooashuns, so I do that.
"Scon" and I don't care if its a plain or fruit scone, nor the order of cream/jam as the latter really makes no difference.
[i]No, it's a molgrips thing[/i]
Not in the least bit surprised.
I thought honey was bee sick as well.
Anyway, Scon, with fruit, doesn't matter*
* cream load is more stable if Jam first, but lets face it, if your not just smearing the thing all over your face in an attempt to get the whole scon in your mouth in one go, you're just not trying
🙂 @ Donk!
Rhymes with gone.
Plain scone, cream on first. Proper clotted cream, of course. None of that Cornish muck.
[b]SC-ON[/b]
with currants
jam on top (for me)
Is it a Welsh thing?No, it's a molgrips thing, being someone who is not especially keen on jam.
On the couple of occasions when we met you seemed entirely normal.
Just have a chip barm and can of Kroney.
Sorted.
Sc-own when I was a nipper, how the family pronouced it. The Wife says Sc-on. So............ Sc-on it is.
Sultanas not currants.
Proper butter.
Jam then cream. How do you spread jam on cream?
Clotted cream?
Sc-on
Fruit- I'm thinking sultana more than currant.
With access to proper thick clotted cream - jam on top
If making do with whipped double cream - jam on bottom, maybe even a little butter first.
sc-own pronunciation for me. fruit or plain doesnt really matter to me. has to be cream first followed by a blob of jam
On the couple of occasions when we met you seemed entirely normal.
And yet.. I'm an STWer...
Sc-on
Don't like currants or jam...
...So usually only make cheese scones
Might try that honey/cream combo though.
Scone as in [i]cone[/i]...not hard, is it? Imbeciles!
Scone (as in groan), currants optional but very welcome.
Jam (Strawberry of preference, raspberry as a secondary choice)
Cream (clotted)
Cream on first, then jam.
S-cone
Without (Don't like dried fruit)
Jam then cream; it's a bugger trying to spread thick jam on top of cream, easier to spread jam, then dump a huge dollop of cream on top.
Yum. 😀
Why are people trying to spread the jam and cream on? Don't you have teaspoons?
Don't you have t[s]ea[/s]ablespoons?
FTFY.
Go big, or go home.
any primary school child can tell you the E on the end makes the vowel say its name, so its sc-OH-ne.
Butter, jam, cream, all applied with a ladle.
Jam then cream; it's a bugger trying to spread thick jam on top of cream, easier to spread jam, then dump a huge dollop of cream on top.
I'd agree with you if you are talking about whipped double type cream. But proper clotted cream is more like soft butter so the cream then jam method makes more sense. Clotted cream is almost better applied with a knife then spread and putting it on top of jam is almost impossible.
If you run out of scones, plain digestives make an excellent cream/jam delivery system.
any primary school child can tell you the E on the end makes the vowel say its name, so its sc-OH-ne.
They'll soon learn that there's an exception to every rule. And with that I'm [b]gone.[/b]
Butter... Digestives... What is this perversion?
sc-on
w/ sultana's always welcome, but generally plain
strawberry jam under as much clotted cream as it's physically possible to fit on.
And with that I'm gone.
what you mean you don't say g-oh-ne?
I asked the maid in dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scone.
Pronunciation: It has to be pronounced "scon" otherwise the "what's the fastest cake in the world?" joke doesn't work.
Construction: I don't know as I've ever seen a scone with either currents or currants in it. Sultanas or raisins, maybe.
Presentation: I give you Cougar's Club Scone (patent pending). Cut in half, optionally butter both halves, jam both halves, cream both halves. Eat separately. Why? Because that way you can get at least double the amount of jam and cream compared to the classic method, without it all oozing out of the sides and all over your hands as soon as you try and bite into it.
I don't know as I've ever seen a scone with either currents
Would be shocked if you did see one of them
or currants in it
dead flies belong in currant buns
Back to the honey being bee sick thing...
It's actually better than that, it's a group chuck-up, nosh away on matey's vom and then chuck it up again until done type scenario 🙂
"The bees work together as a group with the regurgitation and digestion until the product reaches a desired quality"
Yum!
Have the bees been studying rugby club nights out ?
molegrips is right, everybody else is wrong
sc-on
with fruit otherwise it's savoury and needs cheese.
I cannot believe that the scone-cream-jaaaaaaaam-cream-scone sandwich technique hasn't been mentioned yet!!!
I'm trying to understand why the cream/jam debate exists at all and think it's all down to what you believe the cream is for.
Either the cream is spread on like butter, then the jam goes on top. Maybe jam-scone contact is to be avoided? (Edit - like egg-beans contact, wrong)
Or you think of the cream as being a dollop on top much like you'd have with a dessert.
I'm in the first camp - Devon style!
like egg-beans contact, wrong
Now then... there is a whole new debate. Beans and scrambled egg.
cream on first. Proper clotted cream, of course. None of that Cornish muck.
+1
It appears the some of you Northern types aren't aware of the consistency of Proper Devon clotted cream. 😀