A cream tea, Devonshire tea or Cornish cream tea is tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream (or in some instances whipped cream), and jam.
Cream teas are traditionally associated with Devon and Cornwall, counties located in South West England. Cream teas are offered for sale in tea rooms throughout Great Britain (especially the South West of England) and rest of the Commonwealth, or wherever someone wants to give an impression of British influence. In the United States it is promoted as a typically British afternoon snack.
The name “Devonshire tea” comes from the county of Devon in England, where it is a local speciality.
Cream Tea is the signature dish of England’s Devon County and has caught on as a favourite afternoon ‘little something’ in tea rooms and eateries all over the world, although the international version served with whipped cream is but a pale imitator.
Cream Tea can be enjoyed very nicely if the scone is round-shaped, freshly home-baked and preferably warm, strawberry jam contains whole chunks of the preserved fruit, and clotted cream from a Devon dairy farm with a thin pale yellowish crust is on the top.
You can find authentic Kosher Cream Tea on many Kosher Restaurants in Los Angeles.
