The rumor that clotted cream is illegal to obtain or sell in the U.S. is persistent but not quite accurate. It's a little more complicated than that.

Clotted cream is a traditional component of many a lovely tea party, but one key ingredient means that clotted cream is sometimes banned in the United States.

Real clotted cream is illegal in the U.S. — sort of. Clotted cream relies on the fat in raw milk to get its unique texture, but the FDA bans the interstate sale of unpasteurized dairy.

One recipe calls for 2 cups of heavy cream heated in a double boiler over simmering water and held at 180 degrees on a candy thermometer for one hour, then removed from the heat and allowed to ...

William Ewart Gladstone, the great Victorian prime minister, called clotted cream “the food of the gods.” George Blake, a Briton who spied on his own country and now lives in exile in M… ...

The jam-first position is generally associated with Cornwall and the cream-first one with Devon, a neighboring region of Southwest England where the clotted cream tends to be easier to spread as a ...

American Olivia Carney tore open the scone with her hands before adding butter, then raspberry jam, then clotted cream. Brits were triggered by the video describing it as 'painful to watch'.

The dish now contains the clotted cream surrounded by a milky liquid that can be poured off into a container and refrigerated (the liquid can be used as a rich milk replacement in other recipes ...