Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Devon split

Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by xen0 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @02:50PM (#39831416)

As someone from Cornwall, the pictures in the article don't look right. Clotted cream is much thicker; those cakes look like they're made with whipped cream.

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by kwhitefoot on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:27PM (#39831833)

Definitely whipped cream, but then it is a London bakery.

Mind you not everyone in Devon takes cream seriously. I was at Darts Farm shop outside Exeter last summer and saw a stand advertising a Devon Cream Tea with a plast pot of Rodda's!

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by xanderlewis on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:42PM (#39831996)

What’s wrong with Rodda’s?

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by clort on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:58PM (#39832163)

Roddas is great stuff! However, it is cornish so perhaps not appropriate for a Devon Cream Tea?

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by xanderlewis on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:44PM (#39833689)

Ah!

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by Tokkemon on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:01PM (#39831555)

Yeah it looks like whipped cream (chantilly) in the splits. Isn't that correct?

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by hgomersall on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:28PM (#39832468)

I expect not chantilly, just plain whipped cream.

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by xen0 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:13PM (#39831685)

I think one might struggle to pipe clotted cream, or produce anything so 'elegant' with it.

It's thick, being mostly fat (often >60%). At least in Cornwall, it's often bought in plastic tubs like ice cream (it will hold its shape, not flow), not jars or bottles.

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Re:Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Dev... by eigenket on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:03AM (#39835826)

From the article

> and the small number of dishes considered to be Devonian often involve dairy, like junket topped with clotted cream, Devonian cream tea, and the Devon (or Devonshire) split: a sweetened bun filled with whipped cream and topped with a dot of strawberry jam

Those pictures are of the splits

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