Please enlighten this ugly american. Tell me about your favorite cream tea. Do people still really eat this on a regular basis? Do you make it at home or only have it at restaurants? Do the contents vary or does it always involve a scone and clotted cream? Can you have coffee instead of tea? How about booze?
So many questions. . .
― quincie, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)
― quincie, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)
A good cream tea is a nice treat. Cucumber sandwiches may also feature.
― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
― quincie, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)
http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/hotels/images/sunnymeadetea.jpg
it's such a traditional thing, that the definition has become very tight. it HAS to be tea, it HAS to be scones, there HAS to be clotted cream, and arguably, it has to be rasberry jam. Otherwise, it's just afternoon tea, not a cream tea. It's really just a tourist thing now, because not that many people have scones and clotted cream in their houses and clotted cream isn't a staple item in every shop
― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)
― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)
― quincie, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
The special mini oven glove type things with which to lift your silver teapot are a thoughtful touch.
Clotted Cream
― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― quincie, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)