High Tea - does such a thing still exist?

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I would have

Welsh rarebit on toast with green salad

A home made scone with home made jam

home made welsh cakes

a slice of home made gingerbread/parkin

A large pot of tea

caronc

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I would have

Welsh rarebit on toast with green salad

A home made scone with home made jam

home made welsh cakes

a slice of home made gingerbread/parkin

A large pot of tea

Wouldn't say no if your offering you've made me wish I hadn't taken a slice of quiche out the freezer for lunch could fair fancy Welsh rarebit:)

Teacher2

My husband's parents did a 'high tea' admirably. They served a ham or other meat salad with home made pickles and salad stuff from the garden and bread and butter with home preserved jam, followed by home baked cake. 'Shop cake' or 'shop jam' were not on the menu!

caronc

Teacher2 wrote: »

My husband's parents did a 'high tea' admirably. They served a ham or other meat salad with home made pickles and salad stuff from the garden and bread and butter with home preserved jam, followed by home baked cake. 'Shop cake' or 'shop jam' were not on the menu!

Sounds really lovely:)

RossdaleRon

Some/many years ago Edinburgh Waverley Station restaurant served a wonderful 'high tea' with a choice of hot dishes, tea, bread and butter, cakes and scones - and then yet more tea.
More recently a smallish hotel in which I stayed in Kirkaldy offered both 'evening dinner' and a 'high tea' as a choice for hotel guests, and both were open to 'outsiders'. I saw outsiders at the 'dinner' occasionally, but they were queueing for the 'high tea' daily!

TudorRose

This takes me back to the 1980's when we used to holiday in Scotland with the children.
We often had High Tea, usually on a Sunday, as the children liked it. There was usually macaroni cheese on the menu and the children would always eat that.
We used to go to hotels and other places in Montrose. Even the Chinese restaurants used to open on a Sunday afternoon and do a traditional High Tea. That's enterprise for you.

caronc

TudorRose wrote: »

This takes me back to the 1980's when we used to holiday in Scotland with the children.
We often had High Tea, usually on a Sunday, as the children liked it. There was usually macaroni cheese on the menu and the children would always eat that.
We used to go to hotels and other places in Montrose. Even the Chinese restaurants used to open on a Sunday afternoon and do a traditional High Tea. That's enterprise for you.

Sounds just like I remember a hot element first before the cakes and tea. Sounds as though you had a lovely time and good memories to look back on:)

ajmcg_2

I clearly remember my young days in Central Scotland . High teas were the highlight of a day out when we would usually go to a hotel for high tea. This would normally be served from mid afternoon to around 6 o'clock when the dinner menu would take over. While I remember the cooked meal (usually fish and chips) and pot of tea I also remember with great fondness the three tiered cake stand which was placed in the centre of the table. The bottom tier would hold slices of bread and butter, the middle tier would hold a selection of scones (I would always go for the treacle one, leaving fruit and plain scones for the rest of the family) and the top tier held the "fancies" such as pineapple cakes, fairy cakes, French cakes and meringues and eclairs filled with cream. Those were the days.....

caronc

RossdaleRon wrote: »

Some/many years ago Edinburgh Waverley Station restaurant served a wonderful 'high tea' with a choice of hot dishes, tea, bread and butter, cakes and scones - and then yet more tea.
More recently a smallish hotel in which I stayed in Kirkaldy offered both 'evening dinner' and a 'high tea' as a choice for hotel guests, and both were open to 'outsiders'. I saw outsiders at the 'dinner' occasionally, but they were queueing for the 'high tea' daily!

Don't blame them I'd have been in that queue as well

ajmcg wrote: »

I clearly remember my young days in Central Scotland . High teas were the highlight of a day out when we would usually go to a hotel for high tea. This would normally be served from mid afternoon to around 6 o'clock when the dinner menu would take over. While I remember the cooked meal (usually fish and chips) and pot of tea I also remember with great fondness the three tiered cake stand which was placed in the centre of the table. The bottom tier would hold slices of bread and butter, the middle tier would hold a selection of scones (I would always go for the treacle one, leaving fruit and plain scones for the rest of the family) and the top tier held the "fancies" such as pineapple cakes, fairy cakes, French cakes and meringues and eclairs filled with cream. Those were the days.....

It really was a rather lovely meal out and I'm so pleased I'm not the only with fond memories of this. seems to have struck a chord with lots of folk

CacaMck

Caronc not sure where in Scotland you live but high tea is alive and I presume well in Glasgow at the Butterfly and Pig on Bath Street. We also recently visited Perth and we're assured by locals that the Grampian Hotel, where we were staying, served the best high tea in the area. Unfortunately we had already had a decidedly average bar supper elsewhere so we didn't get to try it.