Butter, jam and cream or just two out of three
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340649)
Rockingham, Australia
July 21, 2023 7:42pm CST
LoL’s post (@JimBo452020) about home-made raspberry jam on bread and butter made me think of this.
I grew up on a farm and my husband grew up in the nearby country town. Both our families weren’t rich by any means. We had milking cows and always had as much cream and milk as we wanted.
But when we wanted jam and cream (on bread) we weren’t allowed to have butter, jam and cream. It was either butter and jam, or jam and cream. We were told you didn’t need butter if you were having cream and vice versa. Vince always has butter, jam and cream.
So would you have butter, jam and cream on your bread, or just jam and cream? Providing you like it of course.
The photo is mine of something slightly better than jam and cream.
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.@JudyEv (340649)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jul 23
We produced our own cream so sometimes it was thin and at other times quite thick. We also had scalded cream. You sat a big flat container of milk on top of the stove and very slowly heated it. The cream would all collect on the top.
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@DaddyEvil (137275)
• United States
22 Jul 23
We never had cream on bread. We had butter or jam on bread. Mom wouldn't have cared if we had butter and jam, though.
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@JudyEv (340649)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jul 23
@DaddyEvil Come on now. You can't do that! Maybe it's funny to me too or maybe I'll just have to pull a very funny face at you. So out with it. 
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@FourWalls (68405)
• United States
22 Jul 23
To me, cream filling would be a dessert type addition, so I’d take butter and jam (or jelly) and save the cream for cake.
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@wolfgirl569 (106963)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jul 23
It would depend on my mood. But all 3' could be real good
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@wolfgirl569 (106963)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jul 23
@JudyEv I can understand your parents feeling like that. Plus all 3 would be rich
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@JudyEv (340649)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jul 23
@wolfgirl569 I think that thought came into the equation too.
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@dgobucks226 (35643)
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22 Jul 23
I've never had cream on bread, but if it tastes anything like the whipped cream we buy in stores, I imagine it might be really good. I'm a butter and jam on bread person but would be game to try cream.
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@JudyEv (340649)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Jul 23
@dgobucks226 The custom must have come from somewhere surely. Some of my ancestors were German. Maybe it's a German thing.
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@dgobucks226 (35643)
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27 Jul 23
@JudyEv Yes, I think so. Wonder if the British enjoy cream on bread?
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@GardenGerty (160767)
• United States
22 Jul 23
I have never had cream on my bread, so it would be butter and jam. Granny made the best!!
@ptrikha_2 (47004)
• India
23 Jul 23
I apply just Jam and occasionally Butter and Jam.
We rarely use Cream, except for making a few dishes.
Apart from this, I sometimes have Bread with Butter and Bread with Cheese Slice.
And well a few days back, I tried Bread with Avocado for the first time.
But hey, I missed writing a post on that !!
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@ptrikha_2 (47004)
• India
23 Jul 23
@JudyEv
Well, I am working on a (kind of) series of some more discussions so may be after that !
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@allknowing (136997)
• India
22 Jul 23
Never had cream and now it is just choco peanut spread or only jam.
@RasmaSandra (80177)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Jul 23
That looks so delicious, I could do without the butter just jam and cream,
@Beestring (14591)
• Hong Kong
22 Jul 23
I like butter and jam on bread. Never had cream on bread.
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@just4him (317122)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Jul 23
I've never had cream on bread. If I have jam on bread, I don't put butter on it too. Only jam.
