Cream tea

A cream tea is a light meal. It comprises hot black tea served with scones, clotted cream (used on the scones, not in the tea), and traditionally, strawberry jam.

Originally a specialty in Southwest England, and still widely marketed there, particularly to tourists, it has become popular as a “typically English” treat in other parts of the globe. As with other forms of afternoon tea, the cream tea is still widely available in England, but it by no means true that the majority of Britons eat such a meal daily.

In Australia, a cream tea is usually called a Devonshire Tea, after Devon, a county in England. Devon is often promoted as the place where the cream tea originated, but this has not been proven conclusively.

See also

• Afternoon tea tea (meal)#Afternoon tea