By far... The best video on UA-cam for 2024. The BBC is absolutely stupid for not giving Tweedy a weekly spot. Totally positive content and just fun. Well done again Tweedy.
On a cold blustery Sunday afternoon what better entertainment than watching Mr Tweedy have an outdoor cream tea AND do the right thing and put his clotted cream before jam on his scone. Well done sir 👏👏👍😀 So enjoyably eccentric 😊
@@tweedyoutdoors You are to be commended for your sterling efforts to do so. One day historians will look back at your back catalogue of videos and thank you.
I agree about the clotted cream first, acting like butter in that it forms a barrier to prevent the scone absorbing the jam. Have you got a cape? Might go with the Tweed suit and keep your back warm.
Glad to hear you agree on scones and clotted cream - it also feels like a more solid foundation for supporting the jam which is typically a bit more liquid / wobbly. Maybe putting the jam on first makes sense if you're only then going to top it with a very modest dollop of clotted cream? ...but I see the whole ensemble as primarily a vehicle for clotted cream, and wanted to get as much of that on as possible. A tweed cape definitely an interesting idea!
Bear would be proud of you! A question about the tea in a flask: does it taste OK with the milk premixed? For years I have taken the milk separately, presumably because of some long forgotten bad experience. It’s a pain to do this, though. Maybe flasks are better designed now? A Kipling Battenberg is nostalgia personified! And I’ve learnt there is regional variation in cream scone assembly. Who knew?!
Thanks Mr WC21! I'm certainly no expert on tea in flasks, and I did actually notice a flavour there slightly reminiscent of burnt milk, so perhaps that is the issue? Actually thinking about it, it was probably a bit like the flavour of UHT milk, which I've never been able to get on with, but bizarrely the rest of the world outside of the UK (France, America, Japan...) seems to think is perfectly fine. I actually wanted to get Mr Kipling's Fondant Fancies (are they nowadays called "French Fancies"?) - you know, to really show off like the glamorous social media influencer I am... but alas my local supermarket didn't have them. I'm surprised you hadn't heard of that long running cold war 'twixt Devon and Cornwall over scones! I can barely look at clotted cream without immediately being reminded of that powder keg of regional tensions. You'd really think given all that beautiful countryside and coastline in that part of the world the locals would have a bit less angst!
Hi mate this looks splendid. On my watchlist for my day off tomorrow as well as rewatching your excellent Paddington pubs video. Good stuff keep them coming tweedy! 😎👍👍
A lot of dogs are particularly fond of cucumber! We grow mini ones our little green house in the garden. They've become our corgi's favorite daily summer snack. Black pepper might not be appreciated though. :D
Thanks Kate! UA-cam is quite determined to ensure I remain in an obscure niche but I'm not sure I'd want it any other way! This really was a delightful afternoon (although I'll be honest a bit chilly towards the end) and I'd heartily recommend it.
Good afternoon, Tweedy. Very civilised indeed 😉😁 The dog probably wanted some cucumber. I know several dogs that like eating bits of cucumber 🥒 as an alternative snack ! 👍 I enjoy a cream scone, whatever, but I have just been informed by my good lady that it is "Scone, butter, jam, clotted cream !!!" Apparently !!! 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Lee! I had no idea dogs liked cucumber! That's an interesting variant of the clotted cream first versus jam first debate, and rather unseats the logical foundation to my argument...
Another great video, Tweedy! Out in the woods in typical British winter weather - you're very brave and it made for a fun watch. Please keep up the good work (and with Tweedy's Pubs, too!). Cheers, Dave
Thanks Dave! The silver lining to the cloud of, err, bad weather, is that there are far fewer people out and about. Shivering a bit is vastly preferable to me to a sunny day when there are huge crowds of people everywhere!
Oh yes another great outing there Mr Tweedy. Not sure about the cake selection but I accept they followed on from the excellent sandwiches and scones. And jam on top is my way as there is no practical logic of the other way around. The wine - good choice maybe for the food but red is my preference always or, as you might predict, a pint of good real ale. Cheers, Warren :)
Thanks Warren! I think you might have liked this wine given the slight custard notes! I agree though generally speaking in an outdoors context, especially in cold weather, red is a much better choice - or indeed a hearty real ale.
Oh sorry to hear that! I've long since stopped trying to fathom the workings of the algorithm. I've definitely still been churning the videos out on a semi regular basis!
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! At least one passing dog walker smiled with an air which suggested I wasn't the first eccentric they'd encountered in this neck of the woods.
Am I an alcoholic? My eyes were drawn and stuck on the bottle of booze in the background all video... I needed it to go pop! Jam, cucumber... all good background noise, Battenburg's looked yummy - but that bottle.... I was hanging off that all video.... then no POP!!! Great watch thanks a little 'Popless' though :)
Sorry to hear that SW! Fallen trees are always a very sad sight, and of course even more so if they're so close to home like that. The storm hasn't been so severe (yet) in my neck of the woods, so it was just at a level of being mildly challenging but not genuinely life threatening. I obviously wouldn't have been pratting about like this if there was a serious risk of falling trees!
Thank you! ...but really sorry to hear you're down in the dumps. I always find getting outdoors helps (even if just temporarily) when that's the case. I hope it's just a short term thing!
With you on everything - cucumber sandwiches (although I like mine with a bit of salmon), clotted cream first, tip here - get a tub of double cream, put it in the freezer overnight, let it defrost - shazam, clotted cream, with a little less buttery taste. I also adore apricot jam. The wine sounded great, although I'm not a white wine man, or a fizzy wine man ... maybe I'm coming out of the closet, or wine cellar, on that one 😉
Thanks Iain! I had no idea you could make a version of clotted cream using a freezer but I suppose it does share some common ground in terms of flavour / texture with ice cream, so maybe that shouldn't be so surprising...? Bizarrely I almost never drink still white wine, but I do really like sparkling (white) wine. I think to begin with it was just because I liked the sense of occasion of popping a Champagne cork, but once I discovered English sparkling a decade or so ago I was really hooked. A big part of it was because the landscape that produces those wines is nearby - I love walking in the South Downs, one of the biggest wine producing regions in England. That landscape has a sense of magic for me, and I feel like it's partly captured in those wines.
@@tweedyoutdoors I've got bottles just gathering dust, the whites have probably gone over years ago. As I said I'm more in to red. I've got a bottle of Moroccan red , which was my favourite tipple as a student,, that I've had thirty years. I just need an excellent reason to drink it. I've resisted it at my wedding, birth of both children ... and my divorce, probably waiting for a terminal medical diagnosis before I go for it 😆 The double cream freezing doesn't make it anything like ice-cream. You just have to try it out. I guess its the ice crystals that break down the normal structure and it reforms as something two or three times thicker. Anyway I've got a pizza in front of me and a bottle of Ruddles Best to open. Take care.
It does seem to be a very contentious issue! For me the whole thing is an excuse to eat clotted cream, which I absolutely love - and I feel like you can get more of it on the scone if you start with that.
The best flasks that I’ve found I bought in China ten years ago. I thought perhaps they had thicker glass but they’re lighter than the ones you can find in Britain, and they keep hot water hot for about 15 hours. I don’t know if they still make them as well as they did a decade ago.
I agree - think the whole concept of preparing food at home to take to work (or on some other expedition) is perhaps better understood in Asia than it is here. Even European brands like Thermos seem to make a nicer range of products for, say, the Japanese market, than those which are available here in the UK. Here working lunches are all too often an "al desko" sandwich, but other parts of the world seem to better understand the importance of a proper home cooked / hot meal.
Hi John, I'm afraid my "vague entertainment" meter has gone off scale!! Well done, can this one be repeated in a ditch high up on the downs? Just wondering if the fox passed by for the other piece of Battenburg? Clotted cream is something you can't get down here, maybe it is imported somewhere but there are no high fat content creams produced here, maybe in the wetter north but this is the gold that you get for all that rain. All the best!!
Thanks David! Alas no fox on this occasion, obviously a bit of a fear weather friend there. The only other place in the world I'm aware of which has clotted cream is Lebanon. Which has led to some (disappointingly probably untrue) theory about the Phoenicians visiting Cornwall in ancient times for the tin, and so on. They also have a little pastry in Lebanon called something like a Sambousek which looks unnervingly like a miniature Cornish pasty!
@tweedyoutdoors Well I didn't know that. Sambousek looks a winner. Down here the Argentinans have muscled in on this market. An enterprising Cornishman could make a killing!! I thought the lack of clotted cream was down to lower fat content due to the poorer pastures compared to most of the South West of England.
You'd think this would be a lighthearted subject to cover in a video but it turns out to be a minefield! Yes I agree on the red wine - but whenever I've seen fancy hotels offering a wine to go along with afternoon tea it always seems to be something fizzy (mostly Champagne, possibly English sparkling)... but that said fancy hotels usually don't serve afternoon tea in the woods.
Sharp intake of breath! Not ever cream first, I give you trifles, Viennese whirls a la Mr Kipling, Victoria sponge cake. In all of these cream is layered on top of the jam. But a delightfully eccentric outing reminiscent of mercury-poisoned frolics, thank you.
By far... The best video on UA-cam for 2024. The BBC is absolutely stupid for not giving Tweedy a weekly spot. Totally positive content and just fun. Well done again Tweedy.
You are too kind! ...and to think I was dithering over whether to upload this video at all!
"Out of focus scone preparation action" is what I came for...and by golly, you delivered. 😂
On a cold blustery Sunday afternoon what better entertainment than watching Mr Tweedy have an outdoor cream tea AND do the right thing and put his clotted cream before jam on his scone. Well done sir 👏👏👍😀
So enjoyably eccentric 😊
Thanks Andrew! I feel like eccentricity is is a sad state of decline and I'm on a personal mission to try and keep it alive!
@@tweedyoutdoors You are to be commended for your sterling efforts to do so. One day historians will look back at your back catalogue of videos and thank you.
I agree about the clotted cream first, acting like butter in that it forms a barrier to prevent the scone absorbing the jam.
Have you got a cape? Might go with the Tweed suit and keep your back warm.
Glad to hear you agree on scones and clotted cream - it also feels like a more solid foundation for supporting the jam which is typically a bit more liquid / wobbly. Maybe putting the jam on first makes sense if you're only then going to top it with a very modest dollop of clotted cream? ...but I see the whole ensemble as primarily a vehicle for clotted cream, and wanted to get as much of that on as possible.
A tweed cape definitely an interesting idea!
Bear would be proud of you!
A question about the tea in a flask: does it taste OK with the milk premixed? For years I have taken the milk separately, presumably because of some long forgotten bad experience. It’s a pain to do this, though. Maybe flasks are better designed now?
A Kipling Battenberg is nostalgia personified!
And I’ve learnt there is regional variation in cream scone assembly. Who knew?!
I had a Thermos with a compartment in its base that housed a glass bottle for milk. Haven't seen one like it since.
I also thought you can't add the milk in flask. Just always had the belief that tea tastes funny like that!
Thanks Mr WC21!
I'm certainly no expert on tea in flasks, and I did actually notice a flavour there slightly reminiscent of burnt milk, so perhaps that is the issue? Actually thinking about it, it was probably a bit like the flavour of UHT milk, which I've never been able to get on with, but bizarrely the rest of the world outside of the UK (France, America, Japan...) seems to think is perfectly fine.
I actually wanted to get Mr Kipling's Fondant Fancies (are they nowadays called "French Fancies"?) - you know, to really show off like the glamorous social media influencer I am... but alas my local supermarket didn't have them.
I'm surprised you hadn't heard of that long running cold war 'twixt Devon and Cornwall over scones! I can barely look at clotted cream without immediately being reminded of that powder keg of regional tensions. You'd really think given all that beautiful countryside and coastline in that part of the world the locals would have a bit less angst!
@@awatt A more civilised time!
@@Chilternwildcamper In hindsight it did taste a bit odd. Given the weather though it was very nice to have something hot regardless!
What was the point of that?
Dunno
But it is very pleasant to see someone able to enjoy a day out in the dreary wet and cold day.
Thank you - it just requires the right attitude!
Love this - you managed to get all the elements of a classic afternoon tea. Brilliant. 😂
Thank you! Although I think if you were served Mr Kipling's Mini Battenbergs at a fancy hotel you'd probably ask for your money back...
Hi mate this looks splendid. On my watchlist for my day off tomorrow as well as rewatching your excellent Paddington pubs video. Good stuff keep them coming tweedy! 😎👍👍
Thanks Elvis! It was a bit ridiculous (especially given the weather) but I had a very pleasant afternoon!
Refreshing to see such an English video. Wearing a scarf like that looks foreign however...
Thank you! I'm happy to admit I've never really figured out how to wear a scarf properly.
@@tweedyoutdoors Like an ascot or soldiers in any British war movie!!!
A lot of dogs are particularly fond of cucumber! We grow mini ones our little green house in the garden. They've become our corgi's favorite daily summer snack. Black pepper might not be appreciated though. :D
I had no idea dogs were a fan of cucumber! Who'd have thought it?
I can’t believe I’ve not come across your videos before, what a fun thing to do on a grim afternoon. Subbed to both your channels!
You are both WW guests, expect to meet each other shortly!
Thanks Kate! UA-cam is quite determined to ensure I remain in an obscure niche but I'm not sure I'd want it any other way! This really was a delightful afternoon (although I'll be honest a bit chilly towards the end) and I'd heartily recommend it.
@@tweedyoutdoorsah yes @hedleythorne is right- it’s a small world! Looking forward to meeting you both mid Jan
Mr Tweedy makes exceedingly good vidos!
😂 Thank you!
@@tweedyoutdoors Thank you for not pointing out my terrible spelling!
@@WessexWilder I didn't even notice!
I enjoyed watching that . . . exceedingly!
Thanks Simon!
Good afternoon, Tweedy.
Very civilised indeed 😉😁
The dog probably wanted some cucumber. I know several dogs that like eating bits of cucumber 🥒 as an alternative snack ! 👍
I enjoy a cream scone, whatever, but I have just been informed by my good lady that it is "Scone, butter, jam, clotted cream !!!" Apparently !!! 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Lee! I had no idea dogs liked cucumber! That's an interesting variant of the clotted cream first versus jam first debate, and rather unseats the logical foundation to my argument...
Watching your video with a cup of coffee. Sandwiches and scones are delicious in whatever form.😋
I quite agree - such a simple meal, but quite sublime.
Another great video, Tweedy! Out in the woods in typical British winter weather - you're very brave and it made for a fun watch. Please keep up the good work (and with Tweedy's Pubs, too!). Cheers, Dave
Thanks Dave! The silver lining to the cloud of, err, bad weather, is that there are far fewer people out and about. Shivering a bit is vastly preferable to me to a sunny day when there are huge crowds of people everywhere!
Oh yes another great outing there Mr Tweedy. Not sure about the cake selection but I accept they followed on from the excellent sandwiches and scones. And jam on top is my way as there is no practical logic of the other way around. The wine - good choice maybe for the food but red is my preference always or, as you might predict, a pint of good real ale. Cheers, Warren :)
Thanks Warren! I think you might have liked this wine given the slight custard notes! I agree though generally speaking in an outdoors context, especially in cold weather, red is a much better choice - or indeed a hearty real ale.
Very agreeable Tweedy afternoon tea, you were lucky that dog didn’t scoff all your sandwiches 😂
It was a close call!
Splendid, Tweedy video.
Thank you!
Shriekingly funny!
This is the first time i have seen you in my feed in over a year...
Oh sorry to hear that! I've long since stopped trying to fathom the workings of the algorithm. I've definitely still been churning the videos out on a semi regular basis!
Thanks for the video, incredibly eccentric. I wonder what that dog walker thought. 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! At least one passing dog walker smiled with an air which suggested I wasn't the first eccentric they'd encountered in this neck of the woods.
Am I an alcoholic? My eyes were drawn and stuck on the bottle of booze in the background all video... I needed it to go pop! Jam, cucumber... all good background noise, Battenburg's looked yummy - but that bottle.... I was hanging off that all video.... then no POP!!! Great watch thanks a little 'Popless' though :)
Sorry about that! The pop was in the English Sparkling with Tweedy video...
Throughout this video, I was imagining people walking by off camera, and their expressions 😂
Envy, surely? 😁
@tweedyoutdoors 😂😂 That's the one.
Meanwhile I had 80 mile an hour wind and all my mothers trees are now on the ground , some were 70 foot high . A bit of tweedy just what I needed !
Sorry to hear that SW! Fallen trees are always a very sad sight, and of course even more so if they're so close to home like that. The storm hasn't been so severe (yet) in my neck of the woods, so it was just at a level of being mildly challenging but not genuinely life threatening. I obviously wouldn't have been pratting about like this if there was a serious risk of falling trees!
Absolutely marvellous, what did the black lab owner say😂
Thank you! Dogs in my local woods tend to be off the leash and running fairly free, I'm not even sure I saw the owner.
Superb content. It brings pleasure to my immeasurably depressing life. 👍
Thank you! ...but really sorry to hear you're down in the dumps. I always find getting outdoors helps (even if just temporarily) when that's the case. I hope it's just a short term thing!
Needed a warming Irish coffee instead of the wine. I would also have gone for a slice of Black Forest gateux 🤣👍
I do love Black Forest Gateau!
With you on everything - cucumber sandwiches (although I like mine with a bit of salmon), clotted cream first, tip here - get a tub of double cream, put it in the freezer overnight, let it defrost - shazam, clotted cream, with a little less buttery taste. I also adore apricot jam.
The wine sounded great, although I'm not a white wine man, or a fizzy wine man ... maybe I'm coming out of the closet, or wine cellar, on that one 😉
Thanks Iain! I had no idea you could make a version of clotted cream using a freezer but I suppose it does share some common ground in terms of flavour / texture with ice cream, so maybe that shouldn't be so surprising...?
Bizarrely I almost never drink still white wine, but I do really like sparkling (white) wine. I think to begin with it was just because I liked the sense of occasion of popping a Champagne cork, but once I discovered English sparkling a decade or so ago I was really hooked. A big part of it was because the landscape that produces those wines is nearby - I love walking in the South Downs, one of the biggest wine producing regions in England. That landscape has a sense of magic for me, and I feel like it's partly captured in those wines.
@@tweedyoutdoors I've got bottles just gathering dust, the whites have probably gone over years ago. As I said I'm more in to red. I've got a bottle of Moroccan red , which was my favourite tipple as a student,, that I've had thirty years. I just need an excellent reason to drink it. I've resisted it at my wedding, birth of both children ... and my divorce, probably waiting for a terminal medical diagnosis before I go for it 😆
The double cream freezing doesn't make it anything like ice-cream. You just have to try it out. I guess its the ice crystals that break down the normal structure and it reforms as something two or three times thicker.
Anyway I've got a pizza in front of me and a bottle of Ruddles Best to open. Take care.
Great vid...but for me jam first 😮
It does seem to be a very contentious issue! For me the whole thing is an excuse to eat clotted cream, which I absolutely love - and I feel like you can get more of it on the scone if you start with that.
The best flasks that I’ve found I bought in China ten years ago. I thought perhaps they had thicker glass but they’re lighter than the ones you can find in Britain, and they keep hot water hot for about 15 hours. I don’t know if they still make them as well as they did a decade ago.
I agree - think the whole concept of preparing food at home to take to work (or on some other expedition) is perhaps better understood in Asia than it is here. Even European brands like Thermos seem to make a nicer range of products for, say, the Japanese market, than those which are available here in the UK. Here working lunches are all too often an "al desko" sandwich, but other parts of the world seem to better understand the importance of a proper home cooked / hot meal.
Great Fun ! But a substantial tea! Cream scones and Battenberg? You must spend a lot of time tin the gym to maintain your fine physique.
Hi John, I'm afraid my "vague entertainment" meter has gone off scale!! Well done, can this one be repeated in a ditch high up on the downs?
Just wondering if the fox passed by for the other piece of Battenburg?
Clotted cream is something you can't get down here, maybe it is imported somewhere but there are no high fat content creams produced here, maybe in the wetter north but this is the gold that you get for all that rain.
All the best!!
Thanks David! Alas no fox on this occasion, obviously a bit of a fear weather friend there.
The only other place in the world I'm aware of which has clotted cream is Lebanon. Which has led to some (disappointingly probably untrue) theory about the Phoenicians visiting Cornwall in ancient times for the tin, and so on. They also have a little pastry in Lebanon called something like a Sambousek which looks unnervingly like a miniature Cornish pasty!
@tweedyoutdoors Well I didn't know that. Sambousek looks a winner. Down here the Argentinans have muscled in on this market. An enterprising Cornishman could make a killing!!
I thought the lack of clotted cream was down to lower fat content due to the poorer pastures compared to most of the South West of England.
Please tell me, whilst in Widecombe, did you visit the Rugglestone Inn? Clotted Cream first for me.
I did indeed! A cracking pub. Alas that visit was a long time before I was making UA-cam videos.
A point added for scone pronunciation, however a point clearly deducted for misapplication of condiments. See me in my office.
I knew this would be controversial! I'm glad I got at least one thing right.
Scone should rhyme with stone. Any other pronunciation is just affectation!
@@BadgerBotherer1 Ooh well I go with the King Charles pronunciation...
Completely sidestepped the whole Scon/Scown pronunciation debate I see! Definitely should have been a red wine given the weather.
You'd think this would be a lighthearted subject to cover in a video but it turns out to be a minefield!
Yes I agree on the red wine - but whenever I've seen fancy hotels offering a wine to go along with afternoon tea it always seems to be something fizzy (mostly Champagne, possibly English sparkling)... but that said fancy hotels usually don't serve afternoon tea in the woods.
Sharp intake of breath! Not ever cream first, I give you trifles, Viennese whirls a la Mr Kipling, Victoria sponge cake. In all of these cream is layered on top of the jam. But a delightfully eccentric outing reminiscent of mercury-poisoned frolics, thank you.
It wouldbe unwise to touch any sandwich made by Bear Gryls.