cornish cream tea

Cornish cream tea is tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream (or in some instances whipped cream), and jam.

Cornish Cream Tea

No Holiday in Cornwall is complete without sampling served with real fuit jam, on homemade scones and lashing of clotted cream.

here some recipe, but  I never practice on my kitchen yet.

For the cream tea:

3 home made scones per person freshly baked and still warm to the touch
                      3 home made Cornish splits per person freshly baked but cooled hence cold to the touch
Real butter

8 oz pot of Clotted Cream applied generously

Portion of Real Fruit Strawberry Jam

For the Scones

2 cups plain white flour

1/4 cup butter

1 tbsp. baking powder

pinch of salt

1 tsp. caster sugar

1/4 pint milk

 
 
For the Splits
2 cups plain white flour
1/4 cup butter
1 tbsp. lard
1 tbsp. yeast
1/2 tsp. caster sugar
1/4 pint milk
1/4 pint warm water


Split scone or split horizontally.
Eat whole with fingers not a knife and fork