For both groups, afternoon tea filled a gap in the meals. The custom spread throughout the British Empire and beyond in succeeding decades.
Content
• Traditionally, loose tea is brewed in a teapot and served with milk and sugar.
• However, you can still have Afternoon tea at the many tea rooms around England.
High Tea --5:00pm to 7:00pm
※An early evening meal , largely followed by a lighter meal later in the evening.
The sugar and caffeine of the concoction provided fortification
against afternoon doldrums(精神不振) for the working poor of 19th and early 20th century England who had a significantly lower calorie count and more physically demanding occupation than most westerners today.
cheese on toast(干酪土司), toasted crumpets, cold meats and pickles on toast(冷盘和腌汁士) or poached eggs on toast(荷包蛋多士).
High Tea today
• This meal is now often replaced with a supper due to people eating their main meal in the evenings rather than at midday.
Distinguishment
• Afternoon tea was served in the garden where possible; otherwise it was usually taken in a day room, library or salon where low tables (like a coffee table) were placed near sofas or chairs generally (hence the fallacy about it being low tea).
Afternoon Tea today
• Afternoon tea is not common these days because most adults go out to work. Changes in social customs and working hours mean that most 21st Century Britons will rarely take afternoon tea, if at all.
Afternoon Tea and High Tea in England英国的下午茶文化
• The upper classes typically ate luncheon at about midday and dinner at 8:00 pm or later, while the lower classes ate dinner at about 11:00 am and then a light supper at around 7:00 pm.
• Assorted pastries
什锦糕点
• In hotels and tea shops the food is often served on a tiered stand; there may be no sandwiches, but bread or scones with butter or margarine(人造 黄油) and optional jam or other spread, or toast, muffins or crumpets.
• The term was first used around 1825 and high is used in the sense of welladvanced (like high noon, for example) to signify that it was taken later in the day.
Origination
• High tea was eaten by middle to upper class children (whose parents would have a more furers, miners and the like when they came home from work.
Content
• Traditionally eaten early evening, High tea was a substantial meal that combined delicious sweet foods, such as scones, cakes, buns or tea breads, with tempting savouries(开胃菜), such as
• Freshly baked scones served with cream and jam (Known as a cream tea)
• Afternoon tea sandwiches - thinly sliced cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off.