High Tea - does such a thing still exist?

Smodlet

I wonder what Bilbo Baggins would make of all this austerity... Hobbits are fond of six meals a day when they can get them.

Mojisola

Islandmaid wrote: »

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This is why 'posh' people have breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the others, breakfast dinner and tea.

Edit - Supper was a meal eaten by the upper class, when staff had their day off (how dare they) and left cold cuts, pies etc for the lady and gent of the house to help themselves

Not only the upper classes. In my family, it was breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and we were a long way from upper class.

High Tea was a special event on Sundays and/or holidays although we never had a cooked element to it.

caronc

Interesting all the variations in meal names, High Tea definitely was separate to normal meals and tended to have a special occasion feel to it

PasturesNew

In my house, growing up, meals were:

School dinners at school - or a sandwich for dinner in school holidays.
Tea at tea-time - the evening meal, one course, often egg and chips or similar.
Supper - sometimes, in the winter, about 8-9pm mum'd open a tin of oxtail soup and we'd toast bread on the open fire with a toasting fork. It wasn't a regular thing though, just "sometimes".

comeandgo

caronc wrote: »

What part of the country is this in sounds lovely? So pleased it is still a ongoing affair:)

North east Scotland, Ugie House in Keith to be exact.

caronc

comeandgo wrote: »

North east Scotland, Ugie House in Keith to be exact.

Thanks a wee bit away from me (South West Scotland)

juliettet

Growing up in Lincolnshire in the late sixties/early seventies,
Breakfast was cereal whatever had the best free toy in. Strangely one of the very few things my Mum pandered to!
Dinner (lunch) beans on toast or cheese on toast. Spaghetti hoops or a cheese sandwich. Apple or a banana
Tea, after school boiled egg or jam or lemon curd sandwich & glass of milk.
Tea when Dad got in 6ish, meat, veg & potatoes.
Supper, Cocoa made with milk.


We ran all these calories off plus crisps and sweets were once a week treat. So different now. I eat much better but nowhere enough exercise.

maman

I remember having High Tea with my grandparents on Saturdays.


They'd have their main meal at lunchtime and then about 6 p.m. we'd have something like bacon, cockles and laverbread or stuffed breast of lamb or stuffed hearts or, in summer, a huge plateful of runner beans. All with plenty of thinly cut bread and butter and cups of tea.


Also if there was a special occasion in chapel there'd be a High Tea of (invariably) ham salad, loads of cakes and more lashings of tea!

dekaspace

Only place I know of is a beautiful old tea room/coffee shop just over border in Carlisle, costs about £7 though but their tea is proper, not bagged tea but actual stuff and comes in a teapot.

caronc

dekaspace wrote: »

Only place I know of is a beautiful old tea room/coffee shop just over border in Carlisle, costs about £7 though but their tea is proper, not bagged tea but actual stuff and comes in a teapot.

Sounds charming