Friday, June 28th is National Cream Tea Day in the U.K.
Cream tea is a scone with jam and clotted cream served with a pot of tea.
It is a long-time British tradition served in tearooms, hotels,
farmhouses, trains and cafés and began in the 1850's.
The jam was always strawberry and the cream was always clotted.
Notice the crust on the rich, thick yellow Rodda's Clotted Cream above?
Cream then jam, or jam then cream? It's the difference between the Cornish
and the Devonshire cream tea and the cause of much controversy.
These photos are from several afternoon cream teas we enjoyed during Austin's
third trip to England when Austin was nine years old.
What wonderful memories!
