6 of the best recipes for a cream tea

June 28 is National Cream Tea Day in the UK, a day encouraging us to meet up over a cream tea and raise money for charity. What a very good idea. The fixings for a cream tea are this week’s 6 recipes, including versions for the plant-based or gluten-free among you. The cream tea is eaten across the British Isles, but is a speciality of Devon and Cornwall, and consists of scones, jam and clotted cream, and of course a cup of tea. This is not to be confused with afternoon tea – a refined meal of sandwiches and savouries, then patisserie, and then scones. Equally, high tea means something else entirely, and is the plain meal eaten early after a hard day’s labour or school day. It might be something hearty, like a baked potato, or beans on toast.