We are in London too! We had cream tea today at Arthur's Cafe in Liberty. Hugh Bonneville was sitting two tables next to us!

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

thank you ! took note of the adresse

Only eat half scone at a time, not sandwiched. 😊

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Dana I so enjoy your videos and when I get to see you with your friends. You are so bubbly and sweet. Thank you for sharing with us.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

thank you so nice of you

Part of the reason cream might be the better idea of being put over the jam is it having a stabilizing effect keeping the jam from dripping.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

right?!!

@mariannesouza8326

6 ай бұрын

👍🏼

Looks fun and yummy! Ty Dana for taking us along with you! ❤

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

It was funny and yummy 😁

A delicious British tradition, I love afternoon tea. Thanks Dana🙏❤️

@caroleharden3055

7 ай бұрын

That was a cream tea not afternoon tea!

Dana your such a constant joyful beautiful strong woman. Im sure you make your family proud. God bless you & yours.

Firstly you only ever eat half of the scone at a time, you don’t cut then in half, you gently pull them apart, this is so the cream/jam has a better surface to adhere too. The great Jam or cream first debate,comes from the neighbouring counties of Devon (Devonians) and Cornwall (Cornish) If you are from Devon like my husband you put the cream first and then the layer of jam, If you are from Cornwall you put jam first then the cream. You Lo only ever use clotted cream. ❤❤ K🇬🇧❤️❤️

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

yes heard of it it's a real issu! well I guess I would be from Devon 😁

@kimbevan5614

7 ай бұрын

@@danascookbook My husband said You are welcome to be an honorary Devonian 🤣🤣. I don’t eat cream so I have a tiny bit of butter with lashings of strawberry jam. If you are still here in the UK, please have a wonderful time. Sending you love. K🇬🇧❤️

@CBEEBLE

7 ай бұрын

I believe you can cut a scone in half. The Royal family apparently do! It depends on whether there is a natural break in the scone for it to be easily pulled apart - not always. It is more delicate to eat one half of a scone at a time, not as a sandwich. However, to hell with rules - do whatever makes you feel happy. Generally the best place for a cream tea in London Dana is in a hotel. 😘

@kimbevan5614

7 ай бұрын

@@CBEEBLE you certainly can cut one in half,I am only talking about the Cornwall/Devon traditionally prepared Scone and how they are traditionally eaten by the two counties. It’s been a thing between the two counties since goodness knows when, to eat them differently. They even call the occasion by County, as in a Devon Cream Tea and a Cornish cream tea. You would probably be served a scone without a split in lot of hotels, because it looks more elegant, often as with the one Dana ate an awful lot smaller too, but it won’t be made the traditional way, as in not twisting the cutter into the dough, if you twist the cutter, it stops the scone from splitting too much or even no split at all. As I said I’m from neither county or eat cream so it doesn’t bother me, if the truth be told, I prefer a cheese and chive scone 🤣🤣 However my husband a Devonian and his friend a Cornishman will only eat their traditional scone’s in their own Counties way, with the accompanying light hearted conversation that the other was eating it the wrong way 🤣🤣 x

@CBEEBLE

6 ай бұрын

@@kimbevan5614 ❤😂

Dana everything looked so wonderful.

Happy/ Merry Christmas Dana, what a fun video. I am so happy you found scones. I think either way would be just fine. Thank you for sharing. Love from N.Y.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

merry Christmas to you 2, it was a thing had to taste them in London

You are so like me Dana! You make friends wherever you go! 😍

@danascookbook

6 ай бұрын

😂you’ve noticed ! They were great

I discovered you through the chateau diaries and always thought your cooking was amazing. So glad you have your own channel where you share your talent. You always look stunning too. Thankyou Dana.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so nice of you 🥰

For me, jam first, then cream! Thank you for the video!

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Still have difficulties to think about the knife you’ll have to have two so you won’t put cream in the jam jar 😊

@danielintheantipodes6741

7 ай бұрын

@@danascookbook The grand people serve jam and cream with individual spoons. You put a dollop of each separately on your plate and use the knife from there. So no jam/cream transfersge happens!

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

@@danielintheantipodes6741 still for me cream is more logical to go on the scones first as it’s smear you can’t smear jam 😂😂😂in fact I did both , my way 😆

😊 thank you Dana

The real home of cream teas is the West Country ie Devon and Cornwall .. my a great Grandmother was of Devonian decent and always put clotted cream first and then jam …my Mother was Cornish and put butter , jam and them clotted cream .. I’m a Scot with of course the West Country heritage ..I go Devonian !!!

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Me too ! Thank you 😆🥰

Fortnum & Mason, Herrod's or the English Tea Room in Mayfair are good places to start!

@danascookbook

6 ай бұрын

I’ve been to Fortnum & Mason but only after . I was very pleased with concerto café actually

Merry Christmas Dana, A word to the wise, Do further down our country for a real cream tea. As a Londoner who enjoyed this Wonderful treat...Do Cornwall! xx

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

would love that, next time I'll try , thank you 😍

@toniswift6058

7 ай бұрын

@@danascookbook Most Welcome my lovely. xx

Yummy 😋 I would put the cream first, then the jam 😍😘

@danascookbook

6 ай бұрын

Likewise ! 🤩

hi Dana in South Africa we put butter first on both insides of the scones, then the jam and then the cream. we eat each half separately. We tried the way you showed but come back to ours.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Butter ? I’m having a cholesterol attack 😆😂

Jam first then cream always 😊

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

It'll be a challenge as I wouldn't like to dirty the cream with jam 😅

They do a bloody good scone at the Tower as well.

@danascookbook

6 ай бұрын

I’ll go there next time ☺️

This was a delightful video, enjoyed it a lot. Thanks, Dana!

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

thank you, 🥰

Delightful group!!! Delish scones!!!xo

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

It was so yummmmy

Thank you for the lovely video! next time come to East London, Shoreditch Hackney - amazing food best coffee, bakeries 🤣 and street food markets תהני

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Thank you , I’ll try 🥰

Fun video ❣️👏🏻👏🏻

I would do something tacky by mixing the jam with the cream then putting it on my scone. So good! Much Love

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Great idea! Thank you 🥰

Ive always done jam first, whipped cream is like a topping. Maybe can find scones at museum cafes, I forget because I always go for the Victoria sponge

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

I'll try it next time thank you 🥰

I agree it's hard to find good scones in London. I'm belgian and I adore scones! I once payed a lot at Harrod's for high noon tea, but at least there were scones and live piano music and although we saw famous people, we were also treated as queens. Expensive but unfotgettable experience. Glad I did it and the waiter helped us: first jam, than cream. But that seems to be different, depending what county you're in.

Love scones and it wouldn’t matter which toppings first. They are just delicious. My understanding between raisins and sultanas is the type of grapes.

Sultanas are a specific type of seedless grape that also goes by many other names like Sultanina, Thompson Seedless, Lady de Coverly, oval-fruited Kishmish, İzmir üzümü, and is orinally from Asia Minor (still grown in Turkey). Although it's a golden grape, today it depends alot, in the US and some other countries any non organic grape without seeds can be treated with sulphur oxide to make them golden and labeled sultana raisins, but organic sultana rasins can be light to dark as they are dried naturally, and the flavor is incomperable to the sulphur dried ones which are also heavily fed with growth hormones to speed up the growth (actual sultanas mature slowly bc they don't have seeds with hormone). In some countries I think raisins and sultana raisins aren't differentiated between but in Scandinavian baking we use regular raisins, sultana rasins and Corinthian raisins (from the Ionian Islands in Greece) very small and black. They all have quite different character, same as with olives! Haven't had a decent English scone since 2019! 😭 I'd make some but I need to lose weight! 💕

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Oh ! Thank you ! Yes I looked it up I find it amusing as a name I know some sultana it’s a name in North Africa countries . If you need to lose weight just the night before you start the diet , make scones 😂😂😂

I am from Cornwall and therefore spread the Jam first then a good dollop of cream. Hx

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

😂

I always do cream first. It keeps the scone from getting too soggy. 🙂🇨🇦

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Accepted !!!

Delicious

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

yummmy indeed

I always put butter, jam then cream, but we never have raisins only sultanas in scones this way with cream and strawberry jam was plain scones. Sometimes people have date scones or cheese scones.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Where the butter comes from ? Did I had any ? Don’t remember !

@charmees6637

7 ай бұрын

@@danascookbook Hi Dana sorry I didn’t comment properly. I’m originally from New Zealand living in Sydney Australia. My grandfather was from England my grandmother New Zealand native. She always made plain scones no fruit in them and she made her own butter and homemade jams strawberry, plum, apricot. She would bake the scones. She would halve the scone with her hands spread a little butter on them with a knife, then jam and lastly whipped cream. So yummy! That was our take on scones ♥️

A tip, don’t eat it like a sandwich Dana, eat in halves. always always the jam first, it spreads easy on the scone then dollop the cream on top with a spoon….. much better….. that’s the way we do in Australia…

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Thank you , as a french cream will always go first but I’ll take the half advice thing 🥰

If the scone was warmed, would the cream not melt if put on first?

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

No it has to be very hot and it’s a clotted cream is not a liquide one . Butter might ! Thank you for watching 🥰

The cream is always first.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

besty lol

Always cream first in Devon UK but don't put the other half on top.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Ok I’ll try next time it was effectively very heavy

There are scones everywhere in England, you should have gone to a little tea shop, not those posh ones.😊

@danascookbook

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I was in London and I did many places …have nothing against posh I just wanted Scones !

jam !!

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

😆

Jam then cream. Jam get smoothed on then cream goes on top. It just covers more. More cream that way, and cream is a goddess ❤

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@melissacoelho8413

7 ай бұрын

@@danascookbook I admit it I’m a cream, I want to use a nicer word but can’t seem to find one that encompasses my passion, so cream floozy, is the nicest way I can say it lol

The cream first

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

completely 🤣

No way- cream goes on after the jam

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

right ?!!!

no cat

Are you kidding? 2 scons,cream, jam, and tea cost 29.95 euros? Like 29.95 cents US?

@hollykeller1545

7 ай бұрын

$33 dollars.

@BernardDauphinais

7 ай бұрын

The menu shows afternoon tea consisting of a variety of finger sandwiches, scones with jam & cream, and an assortment of mini cakes. Quite typical for an afternoon tea. I'd be full up for sure.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

it's the menu more in pounds if I recall

@LCamp-cr7fs

7 ай бұрын

It includes the rest of „the tea“ making it a complete meal plus a glass of Prosecco.

@caroleharden3055

7 ай бұрын

Dana just had the cream tea not the afternoon tea!

Please slow your panning way down and make it smoother. I really want to watch your videos, but they give me motion sickness.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Oh sorry ! I’ll send a note to my camera m’en and women 😊thank you for wanting watching it happy holidays

Scones are a West Country tea scones. London is far too Cosmopoliton you need to go not the country areas.

@danascookbook

7 ай бұрын

Would love that, next time 🥰