Sunday 3 May 2015

Cornish Cream Tea

When I discovered I had run out of home made strawberry jam Brian appeared with a box of strawberries from the fruit market.


I obligingly made some more jam! My parents and sister have been here today so with the new jam it was the idea time to serve a cream tea.  My mum is Cornish and some time ago she gave me my gran's recipe for Cornish splits. A Cornish cream tea is traditionally made with these splits which are an enriched sweet bread roll. Yesterday evening I made some splits to my gran's recipe.

                       

They seemed to go down pretty well and of course the jam went on first followed by the clotted cream!




3 comments:

  1. Oh yum. YUM! From your description and photo I imagine splits to be a sort of cross between a bun and a scone. Your jam looks a sight better than mine! I'll have to keep an eye open for more cheap strawbs.

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  2. I second that ... it does look delicious!

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