Cream teas

Is it just black tea with cream and sugar added? Or is it a mini-meal that includes tea, scones, and other sweet baked goods?

... and dont *ever* put cream IN tea! 


Good luck with your move! 

Thanks, everyone!

*drool*

Cream teas were what sold me on the UK when I was a kid...I had that first warm bit of scone with the lovely lovely clotted cream and jam, and decided that British food might have its merits after all. 

I wish I could find it in the US, like somebody said, I just can't seem to describe clotted cream adequately to people who've never had it...besides to sit there and drool...

Clotted cream used to be made like this in farmhouses.  You would take the heavy cream from the milk, set it in large, shallow pans on top of asbestos (yes, this was the old days) mats on the back of the stove, where the slow heat would evaporate out the water, leaving you with this lovely orangey-gold crust with little cracks in it on top of a thickened cream the consistency of old schoolroom paste.  Note - the cream does NOT sour during this slow heating process, it's yummy and incredibly thick.