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October 30th, 2006

English High Tea And Its Origin

Have you ever tasted English high tea? Or let us say, Are you familiar with English high tea? Well, if not yet, great! Mine here is just primary information about the English high tea, but I assure you that you will achieve a level of clear understanding about the English high tea and the English high tea’s origin.

So what exactly are English high tea and the English high tea’s origin?

Here we go. The English high tea oftentimes becomes a misnomer. Why? It is for the fact that most people associate the English high tea to the afternoon tea because for some reasons they think that the English high tea sounds superb and venerable, when in fact the English high tea which is also called as “meat tea” is dinner.

Accordingly, the English high tea at any rate, apt to be on the aggrandize side. On the other hand, most of the American hotels and tea rooms continue to miscomprehend and offer morsels of phantasy pastries and cakes on delicate china ware when they provide an “English high tea”.

Furthermore, in lieu with the English high tea’s history, it is interesting to note that before the introduction of the English high tea into Britain, the English had two main meals, which are breakfast and dinner. It is considerable that the breakfast meal was composed of ale, bread, and beef. As time goes by, during the middle of the eighteenth century, the dinner for the upper and middle classes had switched from noontime to an evening which was offered at a yuppie late hour. The dinner, in which the English high tea is actually associated, is a long and whopping banquet as the sun hides its face.

Accordingly, the Duches of Bedford who was named Anna is the first to introduce the tea time in which the English high tea now emerged. As the Duches of Bedford continue to practice her menu with the English high tea and as she practiced inviting some of her friends to come for English high tea, many of the other social hostesses begin to cater to such practice with the presence of the English high tea.

This practice with the English high tea was then become famous and during the second half of the Victorian Period, which is popularly known as the Industrial Revolution, many working families would go back home tired and exhausted and prepare English high tea for refreshment. In such manner with the preparation of the English high tea, the table is set with any manner of bread, meats, butter, pickles, cheese, and of course the English high tea. It is noted that in such occasions with the presence of the English high tea, none of the savory finger sandwiches, scones, and desserts of the afternoon tea would have been on the menu. And as such, because the menu is taken at a high, dining table rather than the low tea tables, the “English high tea” term emerged to refer to such preparation. And up to now, the English high tea becomes one of the most popular distinctions of the English tea.

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