Best cream tea scones

kimwp

Decided to try Sainsbury's finest scones, but made the error of trying a different clotted cream (also Sainsbury's finest), assuming they'd be the same - it's super thick, needed to be prised out of the tub and not pleasant to eat at all.

mr._prude

I have been making my own lately, wheaten date and walnut scones and cherry scones. I make batches of 8 and then freeze them.

Made the proper way, with buttermilk and served lightly toasted with butter and jam.😂

kimwp

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They sound yummy!

flaneurs_lobster

I assuage my guilt at firing an oven up to 230C just to bake a loaf of bread by cooking a batch of scones straight after.

Classic, sultanas and made with buttermilk. Might be some cheese ones too, if there's a dodgy bit of cheddar that needs using.

PipneyJane

Speaking as an Australian, the jam goes on first, but that’s because we don’t get proper clotted cream in Oz, so everyone uses whipped cream.

Love the scone (scohn) vs scone (scown) athinner. English is a horrible language to learn as a second language, because of all the inconsistencies in context and pronunciation. So many words may sound the same but mean totally different things, others have different pronunciations and meanings depending on where they are in a sentence. For example: Is it read, reed or red?

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kimwp

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@PipneyJane

https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2021/12/06/most-difficult-english-pronunciation-poem-the-chaos-english-pronunciation-lesson/

Brambling

I'm originally from Dorset and we set no preference for the cream, jam order. Personally I don't remember how I do it until I have one in front of me then muscle memory takes over and I just do it automatically 😁

I love a cheese scone (pronounced scone as in gone!) made with a touch of English mustard powder to bring out the taste of the cheese 😋

Pitney my last job was an international company and there were Skype meetings where frequently my Dutch, French or Indian colleagues would translate our English conversation into Texan!

PipneyJane

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You’re bringing back memories @Brambling of the time my largest project was audited by the (French) client. I found myself in a meeting room, expecting to have my bookkeeping questioned and having to justify my processes. Instead, here I was - an Australian - translating the British into terminology that the French Canadian auditors would understand. Seriously, I spent more time explaining road signs than anything else. 🤣

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flaneurs_lobster

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Had a pal who had a very well-paid IT job working for an American bank. His role was largely to sit in London on Zoom calls between the Bosses who were in NY and the Developers who were in Mumbai.

Said a lot of his time was spent explaining the plots of UK Soaps to both sides.

Brambling

we found out the word 'must' means something is mandatory in Texas (it seems it is written in law) so they couldn't understand when we said if instructions were going around the world we didn't feel must was the right word to use for everyone else it didn't necessarily mean it so forcefully especially if they had to translate. We used to argue some instructions should be translated to British English from Texas English before being sent worldwide.

I also once acted as interpreter between a IT guy in Brighton and a lady in rural Louisiana, I'm still not sure why we had a small office there?