Cream teas

....a little piece of heaven. Just wanted to say that!
Just returned from a few days at a lovely cottage in Devonshire. We stayed in Ilfracombe at a manor house (Chambercombe Manor). Next to our cottage was a small tea room that had cakes and 'cream teas'. I have heard of cream teas of course but have never had one. So I thought I would try. I had two warm scones with clotted cream and fresh strawberry jam. LOVELY LOVELY!!!!   

Aaaaah ... one of life's greatest delights!! The cream tea!! I don't usually have them this time of year, but it's lovely to have one sitting outside in the garden of a tearoom on a warm sunny day .... come to think of it, a cream tea is pretty incredible any time of the year! Glad you had a nice time.

Aaaaah ... one of life's greatest delights!! The cream tea!! I don't usually have them this time of year, but it's lovely to have one sitting outside in the garden of a tearoom on a warm sunny day .... come to think of it, a cream tea is pretty incredible any time of the year! Glad you had a nice time.

Oh yeah! That cute little tea room near your house. You should have suggested it! I had no idea what a cream tea was. I was thinking it was something like cream soup! 

Mmmmmmmm, I LOVE cream tea.  Went on holiday to Cornwall, where I first encountered this wonderfulness.  Haven't had it since (not only have I not seen it, it's not the most diet-conscious treat), but the other day I saw a little place by Waterloo station that was advertising cream teas!  Something like a pot of Engligh tea, 2 scones, plus the cream & some jam for under £4, I believe.  Might be worth budgeting the extra calories for .

it's not the most diet-conscious treat

Not listening! Not listening! Not listening!!
 

not listening either! lol
I have been really watching my diet and carb intake for about 8 weeks. but I just HAD to indulge (once a day! hee hee hee)

I love cream teas!!  We have a great tea house we go to and for £2.50, you get a pot of tea, a huge scone and pots of clotted cream and strawberry jam.  Bliss!

I tried to describe clotted cream to someone and couldn't.  It's not like butter and not like whipped cream, not like cream cheese either.  It's just cool and lovely.  I definitely don't think about calories when I'm enjoying that treat!

Places around here usually add fresh strawberries on top in the summer. Mmmmm... wish I could have some now!

Ooh, i love a cream tea!

Shamefully, i have been known to eat clotted cream from the pot by the spoonful.

I always see a poster at my Sainsbury's cafe -- the entire cream tea for 1.49!  Single pot of tea, scone, cream, and jam.  Looks good, but I can't touch even a grain of flour, so I'll never know.  I'll just have to live vicariously through all of you!   

Looks good, but I can't touch even a grain of flour, so I'll never know.  I'll just have to live vicariously through all of you!   

How awful!! Can you get gluten-free ones anywhere? Or I suppose you could make your own with gluten-free flour? Assuming it's the gluten you can't eat, of course. Life's too short not to have a cream tea! (though I'd avoid supermarket cafe cream teas -- there are much better places!) 

We made our own cream tea the other day. Tesco makes a nice easy scone mix... I believe that you just add milk, and they came out lovely, and then we bought a nice thing of Tesco's Finest Clotted Cream, and YUMMMMM!!! and of course to round it all of, the strawberry jam. I just love being able to get clotted cream in the UK. My husband turned me onto it in the US because he managed to find a VERY expensive little jar of it somewhere, and I was hooked! And the best part of all... it is cheap here! I think I am going to have one like once a month just because I can... nevermind the calories!

How awful!! Can you get gluten-free ones anywhere? Or I suppose you could make your own with gluten-free flour? Assuming it's the gluten you can't eat, of course. Life's too short not to have a cream tea! (though I'd avoid supermarket cafe cream teas -- there are much better places!) 

Thanks for the thoughts . . . I make 'cream tea' at home with a big bowl of fresh fruit, the bowl of cream, and the tea, and sometimes find some gluten-free biscuits to have with it.   Still quite yummy, especially with sweet little strawberries.  I think my arteries hardened up this past weekend I ate so much cream!   

What on earth is a cream tea?

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?

Please help. I move in two weeks and am starting to quake!

Cream tea is a pot of tea and a scone that you eat with clotted cream and strawberry jam -  that is the traditional way but variations are allowed.  You HAVE  to have the clotted cream though.

Clotted cream is kind of like a combination of butter/whipped cream/cream cheese sort of.  It is light and lovely and always tastes cool, no matter what the temperature of the cream.  You spread it on the scone and spread the jam on top.  As Pebbles said, a little piece of heaven!