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Tea at Downton
Afternoon Tea Recipes From The Unofficial Guide to Downton Abbey
Elizabeth Fellow
2014 Healthy Wealthy nWise Press
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First Printing, 2014
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Come rain or shine in Edwardian England, everything stopped for tea. But what would our beloved Crawley household have eaten at their sacred 4 oclock institution?
These are the recipes of the golden age of England. At the height of the power of the British Empire, Mrs Patmore would have every possible kind of delicious ingredients to draw from.
Sadly over time the tradition of tea has declined but recently it has enjoyed a rather elaborate renaissance.
This book takes you step by step through how to throw the perfect tea party. From the etiquette behind how to hold ones tea cup correctly to the recipe for the favourite sandwich of Queen Alexandra of the time.
Wow all of your friends with these simple to follow authentic recipes, and be sure even the Dowager Duchess would be impressed by your social graces.
From the bottom tier sandwiches to the elegant cakes of the top tier, we cover it all. Not forgetting of course the perfect scone recipe and its accompanying jams.
Follow the ways Mrs Patmore would have planned her menus to keep spending to minimum and you too can enjoy a most delightful repast for just a few shilling!
So, what are waiting we for? Carson has opened the door to let you inside. Lets see whats for tea....
This book is arranged into two main sections. The first is the history behind afternoon tea. How it came to be. Why it flourished and how England has nearly lost one of its finest institutions. Hopefully you, the reader will do your bit to revive it.
We discuss how to make the perfect cup of tea, and why in fact the English love the beverage quite so much.
In the second part of the book are the recipes.
Many are taken from original cookbooks of the time, others like the Chelsea Bun and Eccles Cake has stood the test of time and have been past from mother to daughter.
Follow the tips for etiquette of which part of the tea cup goes where and avoid those dreadful faux pas which really one can only excuse Tom Branson from making.
Without further ado...Its time for tea.
Elizabeth Fellow
The afternoon tea is the quintessential British tradition. Any political changes to be made by members of the Downton household are manoeuvred and strategized by the women at teatime. Unravelling their napkins one just knows there will be something of great importance discussed. But just how did it come to be, that in England Everything stops for tea?
Its origins date back to the mid 1840s. It is thought we owe thanks to the Duchess of Bedford, Anna Marie Russell, a lifelong friend and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria. On a visit to the Duke of Rutland in the beautiful Belvoir Castle (pronounced Beaver) in Leicestershire, the duchess found she was too hungry to wait until dinner in the evening which would have been served at about 8pm.
She instructed her lady in waiting to bring her some sandwiches and cake which she ate in her chamber. Finding it the perfect repast to get her through from breakfast to evening, she began taking this new meal each day. Realising it could be quite jolly to collect news and chatter she invited other ladies to join her in her own chamber at Woburn Abbey, on the border of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.
The duchess was a celebrated socialite, and was famous for her love of gossip which got her into trouble on more than one occasion. Visiting London, she took her penchant for tea parties with her. Suddenly everyone wanted to do the same. Ladies across the length and breadth of England were taking tea. As it gained in favour, so did it in respectability. Parties came out of the bedchamber and were moved to the drawing room.
In 1857, the Duchess died. Three years later Queen Victoria tragically also lost the love of her life , when Prince Albert died. Grief stricken, Victoria mourned and her friends watched on sadly. As time passed, she was encouraged to start inviting friends to tea as a way to distract her from her sorrow and move back into the public eye. As the Queen took tea, so did the rest of society and the aristocracy. Now rather than the long wait from breakfast to dinner time, a light luncheon had been added and the obligatory afternoon tea.
Later we will talk a little more about the beverage tea. But here, it is important to know it was an extremely expensive commodity. Unable to afford the lavish tea, the servants and working classes wanted their own version to keep them going. In the large houses, when the tea pots had been drained upstairs, the tea leaves were used again by the servants, then when reused were sold on again at the back door.
In the Midlands and Northern England the factories ch oked out black smog as the Industrial Revolution was well under way. Hungry workers came home from their jobs and cold meats and a cup of tea were placed on the table for them to eat. At 6pm, this meal became known as high tea.
Unlike the low sofas in the elegant drawing rooms, high tea was eaten sitting at the table. The name High came from the chairs on which the working classes sat. You will sometimes see afternoon tea also called Low Tea but it is not a term often used.
Later, High Tea would also come to mean a simple meal which the family of the house could rustle up if the servants were away; something small, filling and simple.
In some ways the longevity of life in Britain was lengthened by the rise in popularity for tea. Since the water had to be boiled it offered a safe drink to quaff, taking the place of the gallons of ale which were drunk each day from even breakfast time.
In Victorian Britain, women were intended to be merely decorative as opposed to useful. A well-bred woman should be seen and not heard. In the working classes, shop girls had to renounce a career in order to become a wife. Its worth remembering whilst the role of women has changed over time, their biology has not. Females were every bit as bright then as they are now. Many were savvy, a few were schemers and several were astute politicians. In some ways they knew how to work their men to their own ends better than we do now. Afternoon tea was a chance for the women to rally their own troops and send them back to their husbands to set change in motion.
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