2Travlrs

We will be staying at a HeathrowAirport hotel overnight in June. We'd like to find a bake shop not too far away where we could get some freshly made scones plus some clotted cream. We will not have a car and are ok with taxi or bus.

We'd appreciate suggestions!

janisj

Your best bet is probably looking for a tea shop in Hounslow. I'd have no idea of a specific place -- try googling it.

Gordon_R

Hounslow's great for a curry but not the sort of place you'd expect to find scones and clotted cream. Windsor's a better bet in this case. Do you want to eat them on the premises or take with you? If the former, what you want is a "tea room" (not shop).

bilboburgler

As above for scones but clotted cream may be a bit harder, I'd try Waitrose, I think they do a good one.

Cathinjoetown

Both Terminals 3 and 5 have Marks and Spencer Simply Food outlets in the Arrivals area. I would check there first as their products are good quality. Excellent strawberry and blackcurrent jams as well.

That's my suggestion if you're wanting to take the items home. Be aware the jam and clotted cream would most likely be confiscated if in hand luggage.

Can't really help with a tearoom but High Street Windsor is the best suggestion given here.

Odin

There are various M&S outlets at Heathrow where you might be able to buy ready made scones filled with clotted cream and jam. They may not have the full selection available at the bigger branches.

Windsor is a great suggestion:
https://sirchristopherwren.co.uk/foo...afternoon-tea/

Or at Great Fosters which is a short distance from LHR.
http://www.greatfosters.co.uk/Dining/AfternoonTea/

Hounslow is definitely not the best bet for a tea room although you can buy ready made scones at Greggs bakery.

janisj

Windsor does make more sense for a tea room but it is 7 or 8 miles away and unless you are there in the afternoon not likely doable (tea rooms/shops tend to close up right after the their afternoon service)

And good point above -- are you looking for scones/clotted cream to eat or to take home? If to take home you can't really unless you place it in your checked bags. If you buy it after security at LHR, you could take it on board but not on any connecting flights . . . so if you are flying non-stop I suppose it is <i>possible</i>.

annhig

your airport hotel may serve them - have you checked with them?

2Travlrs

We will arrive at Heathrow about 2 pm and leave very early the next morning. We were thinking of eating scones, jam, clotted cream and drinking some tea in the afternoon and also taking scones to eat on the plane the next day. An afternoon tea with sandwiches is more food than we would want.

Do large supermarkets like Sainsburys have fresh made scones?

Thank you for good suggestions!

flanneruk

"Do large supermarkets like Sainsburys have fresh made scones?"

No - and there's an excellent reason for that.

The fad about fresh scones is about scones made from scratch, with no preserving agents, <b>and served almost straight from an oven hot enough for the butter to melt</b> .

Frankly, though, I can't tell the difference between any scone that hasn't gone stale if it's served hot enough.

Served cold, though, "freshness" is almost irrelevant until the scone actually starts to go stale: the scone's boring to start with. So all supermarket instore bakeries I've worked with use frozen scone mixture, which contains a preserving agent. The scones can then be eaten a day or two later if you really want to.

Incidentally, no British security check will allow cream cakes to be brought airside. The Heathrow rules (http://www.heathrowairport.com/heath...ity/faqs#foods) aren't immediately clear: but read them carefully and you'll see you need to put cream and jam into separate 100 ml plastic bags. This seems to make jam virtually impossible to bring through security for later consumption - though some departure terminals have airside food shops that do sell jam. The necessary faffing about with cream would kill my usually indestructible appetite - though you can take enough for a scone or two if you really want to prove its possibility.

But prefilled cream cakes will be thrown away at security.

Odin

On reflection, I don't my statement was accurate about the prefilled scones, I think the shop bought scones will not be filled with clotted cream. I think it will just be whipped cream.
I don't think you have time to go to a bakery, most will be closed by 6pm & there are none that close to LHR, if you arrive at 2pm, by the time you get thru the airport and to your hotel, it will be late afternoon. There are supermarkets within easy each of LHR, you could even take the tube to Hounslow West and go to Morrisons.

chartley

Looking at these replies confirms my first thought that your plan was going to be difficult.

However, my biggest concern was the way they ate scones with jam and cream in Hounslow. Is it jam on first, or cream?

bilboburgler

It's easy, butter then jam then cream then put the top on.

2Travlrs

Thanks to all for sharing information to help us. Thanks, too, for the proper way for a scone to be put together with cream, jam, and butter...

annhig

It's easy, butter then jam then cream then put the top on.>>

butter AND cream, bilbo - nooooo.

Give your arteries a break, 2Travlrs, and leave out the butter; jam and cream in that order are all that are required.

historytraveler

I agree, no butter. I would also add that scones can be found almost anywhere in England but finding a good scone can be difficult. And, if the jam comes in one of those tiny jars, forget it.

janisj

NO butter!!!!

annhig

lest Bilbo [rightly] chastise me for being imprecise, butter is de rigueur on fruit scones, which typically have sultanas in them. But traditionally jam and clotted cream are served with plain scones, which is what, I think, we are talking about here.

thursdaysd

Put the top on????

No, I eat the two halves separately, both with jam and cream. Why dilute the good stuff with extra scone?

Cathinjoetown

I agree with annhig. Certainly no need for butter AND clotted cream but then "need" doesn't have much to do with it!

I'm not a baker but can turn out a batch of decent scones, preference is sultana scones with butter.