Scones

A staple of the twentieth-century tea table, scones have become a British classic, and, as befits such a simple recipe, they are the subject of fierce debate. They are generally eaten with cream and jam, a habit popularized by the rise of Cornish and Devonshire cream teas, heavily marketed to the modern leisure motorist in the 1920s and 1930s. In this case, the argument centers on whether the eater puts jam on first or cream on first (there is also debate over what type of cream, but it sho