Devonshire splits

Name: Devonshire splits
Yield: Makes Twelve
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 450 g (1 lb) plain white flour; 15 g (½ oz) yeast; 275 ml (½ pint) warm milk; 50 g (2 oz) castor sugar; 50 g (2 oz) butter; ½ level teaspoon salt; 275 ml (½ pint) clotted or whipped cream and 350 g (¾ lb) strawberry jam; 275 ml (½ pint) clotted or whipped cream and 350 g (¾ lb) strawberry jam; 275 ml (½ pint) clotted or whipped cream and 350 g (¾ lb) strawberry jam

Preparation info

Makes
Twelve

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

These are the white fluffy buns piled high with clotted cream and strawberry jam, that holiday-makers in Devon hope to be offered when they see the sign ‘Cream Teas’. They are much more easily made, in fact, than the difficulty of actually finding a teashop that will serve them would suggest.

Ingredients

450 g (1 lb) plain white flour
15 g (½

Europe
United Kingdom
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Warm a large bowl. Melt the butter and let it cool. Stir the sugar into the warm milk until it has dissolved.

Mix the yeast in a small bowl with 3 tablespoons of sweetened milk. Put it in a warm place until it froths. Meanwhile put the flour in the warmed bowl and make a well in the centre; sprinkle the salt round the edge. Pour in the yeast, milk and melted butter and mix well to a sof