After work in Kent, I enjoyed a delicious ’Waitrose’ Cream Tea for £2.95 (well, it was either doughnuts and muffins again). Actually, perhaps other people were asking about it as I feel this addition was fairly recent. It was interesting seeing that a number of other customers were buying it too.
The scones were lovely and fresh (do they make it themselves?) and the cream was real Cornish Clotted Cream. However, they made a ’faux pas’ by serving ‘French’ strawberry jam (it even had no lumpy bits!). Why can’t they have chosen ’proper’ jam?!
I have to admit that I really rather like the French jams, sweetened with fruit juice rather than refined sugar. I also like unsalted butter on my home-made scones and it’s hard to find Englsih unsalted butter for some reason, which is why I buy French Président butter.
Very good point about English unsalted butter. No doubt Waitrose used a ‘foreign butter’ too.
So the challenge is on to find some English unsalted butter…
French jam is fine for French food!