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HISTORY of AFTERNOON TEA

 

​Afternoon Tea is a tea-related ritual, introduced in Britain in the early 1840s.

It evolved as a mini meal to stem the hunger and anticipation of an evening meal at 8pm.

 

Afternoon Tea is a meal composed of sandwiches usually cut delicately into finger-sandwiches, scones with clotted cream & jam, sweet pastries & cakes. Interestingly, scones were not a common feature of early Afternoon Tea & were only introduced in the twentieth century.​​