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Clotted cream

Thick scalded cream with a golden crust, spread on scones beneath jam.

United Kingdom Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Devon and Cornwall have scalded cream for centuries; Cornish clotted cream won PDO protection in 1998, and the jam-first order still divides the counties.

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What is Clotted cream?

Clotted cream is a cheese & dairy from United Kingdom: thick scalded cream with a golden crust, spread on scones beneath jam. Devon and Cornwall have scalded cream for centuries; Cornish clotted cream won PDO protection in 1998, and the jam-first order still divides the counties.

Made with

milk

Cooked

baked

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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