Doesn’t that just depend on which way up you’re holding it? 
I like mascarpone instead of cream, never butter and on top golden syrup or treacle. Or even forget the scone, just a pot of clotted cream or mascarpone some GS or T and a spoon will do nicely. If on scones and the treacle is underneath less of it falls on your shirt in your hair etc.
Mascarpone and golden syrup? Never thought of that. Wonder how it would go on pikelets…
Scones are simply just so much better with cream only - who on earth would want to spoil them with jam?
Jam then cream!!!
Just double cream - below & above the jam and offend anyone who would bizarrely be offended by the application of dairy products and preserves!
eek. butter, if not cream, and jam.
Butter only just perhaps, with sultana scones but never, ever just cream 
Got to be jam and no cream - delish 
gives me the sudden urge to make some 
Oh, please, butter with the jam, at least?
Perhaps French butter, with its sweetish overtones but not the greasy, slightly cheesy English stuff.
Lurpak or the French ones
Oh no 
great quality strawberry jam with a lovely moist scone with sultanas = winner 
It’s interesting how tastes vary. I love the smell of French butter, but my wife dislikes it. She will happily put butter on toast where I prefer a margarine like Bertolli because it doesn’t leave me feeling greasy & cheesy. But a thick double cream directly in a scone is really nice, letting the flavour (or otherwise) of the baked goods shine through.
My preference is for caramelised flavours in foods: crusty breads, slightly charred meats, fried onions, batters, browned cakes.
My dislike is sweet, airy, greasy and insubstantial stuff.
A sponge with buttercream leaves me feeling icky, but a moist fruitcake is a thing of beauty. Jam has no place in my foods.
Pumpkin scones with salted butter 
Plain scones with a sliver of butter, strawberry jam then clotted cream 
and cheese scones with salted butter
Oh I’d forgotten about cheese scones, big in Oz
Abomination. Sultanas currants etc have no place in a scone. Nonononononono
I still think there’s a strong case for cream/mascarpone etc with or without jam or syrup etc and no baked thing at all.
Has to be fresh, thinly sliced strawberries with clotted cream for me. Can’t stand anything with that much sugar in it.
Now you’re talking 
