Best afternoon tea I had in England was whilst taking a stroll through Bath. In and of itself a lovely 2000 year old Roman city, it was the tea. I had tea better once more in Central Kenya by a young Maasai girl. She was very prett, but the tea was impeccable. Had to marry that girl and bring her back to America. Now we got 2 kids!
Every nation in creation has its favourite drink France is famous for its wine, it's beer in Germany Turkey has its coffee, and they serve it black as ink Russians go for vodka and England loves its tea Oh, the factories may be roaring With boom-a-lacka, zoom-a-lacka, wee But there isn't any roar when the clock strikes four Everything stops for tea Jack Buchanan
I love how they are all discussing the correct etiquette for eating the food while the little baba is totally oblivious and happily munches on his chips!
I think 'High Tea' is now much more of a tourist experience than an English cultural tradition.Most of us drink the stuff out of mugs and dunk biscuits in it.Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice to see your friends enjoying English traditions and respecting the culture. Did you buy your daughter the bonnet , she looked lovely wearing it. Nice plug for the tee-shirts, but when is Lillian doing a cd
What a lovely day 🤗 Doris looked so cute in the bonnet and Humphrey with his chips, bless them xxx I saw your video on Wales and was so disappointed for you. I was born on the Gower coast, in Wales and there are so many beautiful places. Tenby (beautiful little traditional town), Rhossili Bay, Three Cliffs Bay etc. I do hope you get to go back one day and have a better experience. I don’t know whether you’ve ventured much to the English coast but Devon and Cornwall (St Ives is beautiful) have those traditional little seaside towns, among others. So glad your American friends enjoyed their day. ❤️
Wow ,I'm English & probably not visited a proper Tea House for afternoon tea for about 25 years (in Glastonbury when my daughter was probably the same age as your girl)! I loved that antiques place you went around , the prices weren't bad either .
You should visit Tortworth Court for afternoon tea, it’s in South Gloucestershire and Bath also have some wonderful places for afternoon tea too. Does Doris sit in her car seat rear facing? Nice to see your friends by the way.
The traditional order for afternoon tea is: savoury then scones then sweet. The sandwiches at the bottom, scones in the middle and cakes (fancies) at the top. As to the heated debate over how to eat scones, it's the Cornish (jam then cream) or Devonshire (cream then jam). Just pick one, either way is quite delicious!
You guys do a better job than the English Tourist Board. Your trip to an antiques shop reminds me, I once saw a shop with a sign outside saying 'We buy junk and sell antiques'.
Great video .... it was nice that you showed your friends from home the tradition of afternoon tea. Earl Grey is usually drunk with no milk and if you like, a slice of lemon. When I have scones I always put the cream on first, much like when I butter bread, then the jam - Felipe had it down to a "t". If I had ordinary tea, not earl grey, I would always pour the tea in first and then the milk; I can judge better how strong or weak it looks doing it this way.
You were lucky to get in Lilly's, every time I've gone there it's been full up and we end up in the arcade caff, have walked around those antique shops a few times.
Ok, everyone of us has there own quirks, methods & styles and for making or serving afternoon tea (there is no real right or wrong way), I like to make afternoon tea a special treat/occasion - Here`s my way based upon what my aunts use to serve - preferably use home made Strawberry Jam first when spreading (cos it heavier than clotted cream = acts like a glue to stick to the scone then cream on top) but the other way around if using ice cold butter instead of cream - Sandwiches;- keep it simple & light = use a fresh cucumber (discard the centre watery bit) straight from the green house is obviously the best if you grow your own, but supermarket bought is still ok if soaked in a light vinaigrette with dill + egg mayo & water cress sandwiches + another of your choice. Cakes;- buy shop bought lemon curd tarts, coconut sponge cake, chocolate profiteroles, lemon drizzle cake, or make your own have the skill, time, or inclination. Tea;- 50/50 mix of loose Earl Grey tea mixed with black tea of your choice in a tea pot (lovely fruity/earthy taste) + serve in bone china cups.
It was a lovely idea for you to take your visitors to have tea. To any Americans reading this, please don't think we do this regularly.It's popular in tourist areas.Ye olde English tea shop etc, all quaint names. In my own town, a beautiful Art Deco hotel, that was in the last ten years brought back into use, offers afternoon tea. They are quite expensive per person but are popular for birthdays,( ladies of a certain age) or just for the novelty of it. I had a Mother's Day tea there a few years ago.It was OK, the cakes, I like to think were made in their kitchen not brought in. You could have had the food and drink at home for a lot cheaper, but I suppose there's nothing wrong with indulging to make yourself and friends happy. At the moment I'm drinking ground coffee, I prefer it to tea. If I do drink tea, it's loose leaf made in a tiny Brown Betty tea pot. Loose leaf at the moment because I'm against plastic used to make teabags. Milk in first, then I don't have to think about how much room to leave at the top of the mug (yes in a very large mug) for the milk.
Defo butter first.... then jam, (a thickish layer), then a big thick blob of cream on top.. Anyway, try it with butter on and you'll never go back. :) Thats how we do it up north... Newcastle way.
Every time I see your intro it makes me smile and I and thrilled to see Doris and Gerbert also doing the smile into sinister stare , Doris is really nailing it, I forgot your son's alter ego name so I chose Gerbert for him lol
I lived in Plymouth for 40 years, a hotbed of debate over jam or cream first on the scone. Devon is cream first & Cornwall is the opposite and there is so many Cornish exiles living there, makes for lively discussions.
My mum had some clotted cream sent through the post from Devon, once unwrapped an 8" x 8"x 3" block was uncovered. my mum cut a slice of cream (it was rather more set than you get these days) 1/2" thick and laid it on the pre buttered and jammed half scone and ate it. Even though I was only 5 years old I thought to myself that, "That can't be good for you". You know what I was right. To top it all I never got a look in.
This place looks adorable! I'm gonna put it on my list of places to visit. I like when there is savoury as well as sweet. I just uploaded a little tea vlog as well! so cute
Fun fact about how much us brits love our tea. Early tanks didn't have any tea making facilities so they exited the tank to make tea but ended up getting shot and due to so many brits dying from this, all tanks now how tea making facilities rofl.
I am a 60 old British I never drink earl gray tea with milk its tastes dreadful with milk. Also I have never had an afternoon tea as shown in the video. Until very recently it was only available in very old fashioned up market hotels or touristy areas. A hight tea what we had. High tea is usually some cooked snack shuch as cheese on toast or creamed mushrooms on toast with cakes and a pot of tea
Jam then cream in Cornwall. T'other way around in Devon. The latter is an aberration. Just realised (hence the edit), you were in Wickham. Such a strange place.... gorgeous in the daytime, truly horrible as a result of being over-run by yobbos at night.
Go to shop buy some Yorkshire tea. Boil water Leave tea bag in your cup 3 minutes take out tea bag had suger if u take suger. Then had your milk thats a perfect cup of tea.
Fatlad Henderson - Yorkshire Tea IS The Business (I speak as a Beautiful Southerner). But - tea BAGS ? Ghastly idea: you MUST have a PROPER teapot - and PROPER tea LEAVES. Infinitely superior to all that bagged dust...............................(just ask the tasters at Twinings !). Quality should not ALWAYS yield to Convenience ;-)
That was a nice, happy video. Being a West Country boy from the land of scones and cream teas I grew up always to have butter on your scones. It doesn't have to be thick, but it's all obviously a preference thing. then: 1. In Devon, they put the cream on first and then the jam - and so Felipe has used the Devonian method! :-) Or 2. In Cornwall, they put the jam on first and then the cream. (I have Cornish relatives and so that's the way we always do it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_tea Ultimately it doesn't matter of course - it's however you like to do it! :-)
Top man Felipe, cream first ! It’s engineering common sense, the cream is stiffer so the soft jam can be spread on top. It just doesn’t work as well the other way around
Aaagh! I prefer the Cornish way...jam first. That way the upper lip descends upon the pleasantly soft, cool texture of the clotted cream instead of the sticky, messy, exposed layer of jam. I don't mind a bit of a creamy upper lip, but not a sticky one. But each to their own! 😉
Clotted cream teas in Devon or Cornwall with views of the coast are wonderful. Traditionally, you would put the milk in first and then the tea. Your friend is correct in that the wealthy would do it the other way because they would not care about breaking the china. Tea brews better in very hot water releasing more of the flavor and flavenoids, the anti-oxidants and anti-cancer chemicals that make tea healthy. Scientifically speaking, sugar dissolves faster in hot tea, rather than in tea already cooled by the milk. This means that the brew is sweetened to the desired level and more homogeneous. So the order should be sugar then tea dissolves sugar and then milk cools the tea just enough to start sipping.
To our US friends in England, a CUP OF TEA solves every problem you may have........bad day at work, just cut my finger, my wife has left me, my cat's been run over........a CUPPA solves every known problem!!......ironic UK humoUr again?? When I go abroad it's what I miss most....a decent cuppa. To have proper tea it really is best to have what we call proper LOOSE LEAF TEA as opposed to tea BAGS. My cup's of ROSEY LEE (cockney London slang) are well known for tasting lovely, so if ever you are near Marchwood (south of Southampton) just let me know guys ? Best Regards Chris
Making tea is an English ritual full of controversy especially about whether the milk or the tea goes in the cup first. My Mother always said - and Mother always knows best - the the rich had porcelain cups which would stand the shock of the hot tea going in first, but the poor had earhenware cups which needed to have the milk in first. On the other hand a friend who was a cookery teacher says that putting the milk in first damages its structure when the hot tea is poured on top. We also tell people we do not need sugar because we are sweet enough. You pays your money and you make your choice. Betty's is definitely the best but closely followed by the restaurant in the Coach House at Chatsworth House.
I find if you put tea in first and let it brew it stains the cup, whereas if you put a small amount of milk then hot water then tea bag or just tea you don’t get stained cup
@@martinlewis1015 No, no, no. Boiling water goes in the teapot then (Yorkshire) tea and then it must brew for at least 4 minutes. This is a matter of religious doctrine. We have been trying to train the French for almost 20 years.
Milk always goes first, water second. There is a few reasons for this. The main one being boiling hot water straight onto the teabag 'scolds' it and makes it taste different. You'll get a lot of ill-informed Northerns arguing otherwise but they're wrong. There's been scientific studies on this, just Google it.
I couldn't agree with you any more love it every time I'v been, expensive but it's an experience to behold. Just wish there was a Betties close to where I live.
You mentioned "high tea" and then corrected yourself. High Tea is the last meal of the day, eaten around 6pm or so, it will consist of a cooked dish, but there will also be cups of tea, perhaps bread and butter and some form of pudding/sweet/desert, call it what you will. It should be differentiated from "supper" which will be eaten rather later and would not normally be served with cups of tea.
Hello this is Fabian from the Cotswolds I hope all are well with the family.The sequence Question please find the attached www.ohhowcivilized.com/afternoon-tea-101-course-order/ PS The American Page I have sent you is the true sequence Cream 1st then jam that would be I believe the Devonshire way 2nd jam 1st as with cream 2nd would be the Cornish Way (thought this might be vice versa ) Enjoy
It’s the milk first for precisely the opposite reason, the hot tea could break the china so you put cold milk in first. I have never heard of putting the tea in first. What an outrage!
No, it was that expensive bone China didn’t crack, so those who could afford them put the hot tea in first. ‘Poorer’ people who could only afford cheap pot cups had to put the milk in first to stop their cup cracking. I think everybody puts in the milk first now...
Cream first on scones ? ABSOLUTELY - and 10 out of 10 to Felipe for displaying some sound old-fashioned Anglo-American common sense. Only the Village Idiot - or the Cornish Nationalist (in so far as there's a difference) - would put a dollop of clotted cream on top of the jam. Yikes !! Well done, that man ;-)
@@chrislyne377 "they put the cream on first" My God, Chris - don't you know they have Electricity AND the Internet in Cornwall now ? All it takes is ONE member from the militant wing of the Pixies and Pasties Alliance to read that comment (I admire your courage, admittedly), and your car tyres will start going flat on you ! Those Cornish Pixies can be VICIOUS when roused.................................;-)
@@marvinc999 Lol Funny story, my dad grew up near Ding Dong mine on the Northwest coast and they didn't have electricity nor running water. The postman used to deliver on horseback!
Everyone saying they like seeing Americans embracing English culture... but I don't think I've ever seen a "tea house" or know anyone who's been to one. I think it's an antiquated tradition of posh people, or is it a Southern thing? If I go South I'd probably see what it's like in there, shamble in like a Northern sasquatch and ask for Tetleys and get outraged if it's more than 50p. The tea thing is true. I practically have a teapot hooked up to my veins.
Tell your friend there's no "proper" way of drinking tea, drink it how you like it, she also might like lady grey tea, that is probably nicer weak no milk
Mark Francis1977 - "English gentry NEVER eat food with their hands" This is PERFECTLY true: _I_ , for example, tend to eat MY sandwiches with a spoon..............................
This isn't a criticism of Lillian and Felipe or anyone, but why do some people make out eat a scone is the equivalent of performing brain surgery. Your English friend in this video seems to want to turn having afternoon tea into some Byzantine ritual. It's your food enjoy it how you want.
You seem to be proud of being British citizens now, We love people who respect our way of life please stay forever u are lovely people.
Your boy certainly likes his chips he finished the lot.
Love seeing you guys embracing the British culture , have a great day ❤️
i didn't know we had one
Humphrey is showing em how we really do it.
With a great big plate of chips.
4:10 Felipe nailed it.
Best afternoon tea I had in England was whilst taking a stroll through Bath. In and of itself a lovely 2000 year old Roman city, it was the tea.
I had tea better once more in Central Kenya by a young Maasai girl. She was very prett, but the tea was impeccable. Had to marry that girl and bring her back to America. Now we got 2 kids!
The Pump Room do a very fine afternoon tea
Glad you all had a good time and your friends like our quaint little island
Every nation in creation has its favourite drink
France is famous for its wine, it's beer in Germany
Turkey has its coffee, and they serve it black as ink
Russians go for vodka and England loves its tea
Oh, the factories may be roaring
With boom-a-lacka, zoom-a-lacka, wee
But there isn't any roar when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea
Jack Buchanan
Russians love their tea as well
I love how they are all discussing the correct etiquette for eating the food while the little baba is totally oblivious and happily munches on his chips!
I think 'High Tea' is now much more of a tourist experience than an English cultural tradition.Most of us drink the stuff out of mugs and dunk biscuits in it.Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice to see your friends enjoying English traditions and respecting the culture.
Did you buy your daughter the bonnet , she looked lovely wearing it.
Nice plug for the tee-shirts, but when is Lillian doing a cd
It puts you in a good mood having scones and cream and tea in the arvo.
Such a fun episode! Can't wait to have some more afternoon tea with those delicious sandwiches and scones!!
What a lovely day 🤗 Doris looked so cute in the bonnet and Humphrey with his chips, bless them xxx I saw your video on Wales and was so disappointed for you. I was born on the Gower coast, in Wales and there are so many beautiful places. Tenby (beautiful little traditional town), Rhossili Bay, Three Cliffs Bay etc. I do hope you get to go back one day and have a better experience. I don’t know whether you’ve ventured much to the English coast but Devon and Cornwall (St Ives is beautiful) have those traditional little seaside towns, among others. So glad your American friends enjoyed their day. ❤️
Wow ,I'm English & probably not visited a proper Tea House for afternoon tea for about 25 years (in Glastonbury when my daughter was probably the same age as your girl)! I loved that antiques place you went around , the prices weren't bad either .
Tea at the Ritz in London. Now that would be classy. Just a tad more expensive though
Butter, clotted cream then jam = awesome. I never knew Lilly’s was in Wickham. Guess I will have to visit now :)
You should visit Tortworth Court for afternoon tea, it’s in South Gloucestershire and Bath also have some wonderful places for afternoon tea too. Does Doris sit in her car seat rear facing? Nice to see your friends by the way.
The traditional order for afternoon tea is: savoury then scones then sweet. The sandwiches at the bottom, scones in the middle and cakes
(fancies) at the top. As to the heated debate over how to eat scones, it's the Cornish (jam then cream) or Devonshire (cream then jam). Just
pick one, either way is quite delicious!
Looks fun!
I enjoyed seeing you and your friends taking afternoon tea, they seem like a lovely couple
You guys do a better job than the English Tourist Board.
Your trip to an antiques shop reminds me, I once saw a shop with a sign outside saying 'We buy junk and sell antiques'.
Great video .... it was nice that you showed your friends from home the tradition of afternoon tea. Earl Grey is usually drunk with no milk and if you like, a slice of lemon. When I have scones I always put the cream on first, much like when I butter bread, then the jam - Felipe had it down to a "t". If I had ordinary tea, not earl grey, I would always pour the tea in first and then the milk; I can judge better how strong or weak it looks doing it this way.
You were lucky to get in Lilly's, every time I've gone there it's been full up and we end up in the arcade caff, have walked around those antique shops a few times.
Not lucky, we booked a day ahead. We learned a long time ago that rare are the food places you can just show up to and get a table.
Ok, everyone of us has there own quirks, methods & styles and for making or serving afternoon tea (there is no real right or wrong way), I like to make afternoon tea a special treat/occasion - Here`s my way based upon what my aunts use to serve - preferably use home made Strawberry Jam first when spreading (cos it heavier than clotted cream = acts like a glue to stick to the scone then cream on top) but the other way around if using ice cold butter instead of cream - Sandwiches;- keep it simple & light = use a fresh cucumber (discard the centre watery bit) straight from the green house is obviously the best if you grow your own, but supermarket bought is still ok if soaked in a light vinaigrette with dill + egg mayo & water cress sandwiches + another of your choice.
Cakes;- buy shop bought lemon curd tarts, coconut sponge cake, chocolate profiteroles, lemon drizzle cake, or make your own have the skill, time, or inclination.
Tea;- 50/50 mix of loose Earl Grey tea mixed with black tea of your choice in a tea pot (lovely fruity/earthy taste) + serve in bone china cups.
It was a lovely idea for you to take your visitors to have tea.
To any Americans reading this, please don't think we do this regularly.It's popular in tourist areas.Ye olde English tea shop etc, all quaint names.
In my own town, a beautiful Art Deco hotel, that was in the last ten years brought back into use, offers afternoon tea. They are quite expensive per person but are popular for birthdays,( ladies of a certain age) or just for the novelty of it. I had a Mother's Day tea there a few years ago.It was OK, the cakes, I like to think were made in their kitchen not brought in.
You could have had the food and drink at home for a lot cheaper, but I suppose there's nothing wrong with indulging to make yourself and friends happy.
At the moment I'm drinking ground coffee, I prefer it to tea. If I do drink tea, it's loose leaf made in a tiny Brown Betty tea pot. Loose leaf at the moment because I'm against plastic used to make teabags. Milk in first, then I don't have to think about how much room to leave at the top of the mug (yes in a very large mug) for the milk.
We've had our afternoon tea now we re off to look at some antiques. You must have visited the houses of Parliament
Defo butter first.... then jam, (a thickish layer), then a big thick blob of cream on top.. Anyway, try it with butter on and you'll never go back. :) Thats how we do it up north... Newcastle way.
Every time I see your intro it makes me smile and I and thrilled to see Doris and Gerbert also doing the smile into sinister stare , Doris is really nailing it, I forgot your son's alter ego name so I chose Gerbert for him lol
I lived in Plymouth for 40 years, a hotbed of debate over jam or cream first on the scone. Devon is cream first & Cornwall is the opposite and there is so many Cornish exiles living there, makes for lively discussions.
You could try putting jam on one half of the scone and the cream on the other half then decide which is the better.
Would love to experience that!!!
My mum had some clotted cream sent through the post from Devon, once unwrapped an 8" x 8"x 3" block was uncovered. my mum cut a slice of cream (it was rather more set than you get these days) 1/2" thick and laid it on the pre buttered and jammed half scone and ate it. Even though I was only 5 years old I thought to myself that, "That can't be good for you". You know what I was right. To top it all I never got a look in.
Afternoon tea i think ill have some too
The complexities of a cream scone,lol!
Afternoon tea and scones with clotted cream. Designed to keep our heart surgeons in business.
Not if you burn off the cals Ron, I was raised on the stuff.
@@russcattell955i Just a lighthearted comment Russ. Everything in moderation. The easiest way to burn it off is to walk to the pub.
@@RonSeymour1 Now you are talking !
This place looks adorable! I'm gonna put it on my list of places to visit. I like when there is savoury as well as sweet. I just uploaded a little tea vlog as well! so cute
afternoon tea shows we are very civilised
Fun fact about how much us brits love our tea.
Early tanks didn't have any tea making facilities so they exited the tank to make tea but ended up getting shot and due to so many brits dying from this, all tanks now how tea making facilities rofl.
I am a 60 old British I never drink earl gray tea with milk its tastes dreadful with milk. Also I have never had an afternoon tea as shown in the video. Until very recently it was only available in very old fashioned up market hotels or touristy areas. A hight tea what we had. High tea is usually some cooked snack shuch as cheese on toast or creamed mushrooms on toast with cakes and a pot of tea
What is the right and proper way is what you feel is comfortable with you when having afternoon tea is may take on that.
Philipe you have to get far more cream on the scone. The aim to not have any cream left when you've finished. Pile it high.
Sorry I spelt your name incorrectly. "My bad".
Sandwiches then cakes, tea all the way through
Cornwall, jam first then cream; Devon, cream first then jam.
Never ague with the Kernows ...
Earl Grey no milk no sugar. Antique browsing is addictive.
It's time for... tea. 🍵
Or Tiffin, as we say in the Raj.
Jam then cream in Cornwall. T'other way around in Devon. The latter is an aberration.
Just realised (hence the edit), you were in Wickham. Such a strange place.... gorgeous in the daytime, truly horrible as a result of being over-run by yobbos at night.
2:10 Yes, got it right. Jam first. :)
Edit 3:45 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :D
In Devon,the real home of the Scone with clotted cream,the jam goes on first.In Cornwall the cream goes on first!
Yes its part of British Culture now, after we fetched it from Indian, Ceylon and China. Thats worth a read in itself.
Go to shop buy some Yorkshire tea. Boil water Leave tea bag in your cup 3 minutes take out tea bag had suger if u take suger. Then had your milk thats a perfect cup of tea.
Fatlad Henderson -
Yorkshire Tea IS The Business (I speak as a Beautiful Southerner).
But - tea BAGS ? Ghastly idea: you MUST have a PROPER teapot - and PROPER tea LEAVES. Infinitely superior to all that bagged dust...............................(just ask the tasters at Twinings !). Quality should not ALWAYS yield to Convenience ;-)
you should be had up for your awful spelling!
That was a nice, happy video.
Being a West Country boy from the land of scones and cream teas I grew up always to have butter on your scones. It doesn't have to be thick, but it's all obviously a preference thing. then:
1. In Devon, they put the cream on first and then the jam - and so Felipe has used the Devonian method! :-) Or
2. In Cornwall, they put the jam on first and then the cream. (I have Cornish relatives and so that's the way we always do it)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_tea
Ultimately it doesn't matter of course - it's however you like to do it! :-)
Devon & Dorset Cream Then Jam Cornwall other way round
how is the garden going.
Top man Felipe, cream first ! It’s engineering common sense, the cream is stiffer so the soft jam can be spread on top. It just doesn’t work as well the other way around
You are an absolute lad!
Noooo! Jam first, then cream; the art is in spreading the cream over the jam without slippage.
@John Ashtone did you say - butter?
I don't feel very well
Aaagh! I prefer the Cornish way...jam first. That way the upper lip descends upon the pleasantly soft, cool texture of the clotted cream instead of the sticky, messy, exposed layer of jam. I don't mind a bit of a creamy upper lip, but not a sticky one. But each to their own! 😉
@John Ashtone you mean lard first lol
Clotted cream teas in Devon or Cornwall with views of the coast are wonderful.
Traditionally, you would put the milk in first and then the tea. Your friend is correct in that the wealthy would do it the other way because they would not care about breaking the china.
Tea brews better in very hot water releasing more of the flavor and flavenoids, the anti-oxidants and anti-cancer chemicals that make tea healthy. Scientifically speaking, sugar dissolves faster in hot tea, rather than in tea already cooled by the milk. This means that the brew is sweetened to the desired level and more homogeneous. So the order should be sugar then tea dissolves sugar and then milk cools the tea just enough to start sipping.
To our US friends in England, a CUP OF TEA solves every problem you may have........bad day at work, just cut my finger, my wife has left me, my cat's been run over........a CUPPA solves every known problem!!......ironic UK humoUr again?? When I go abroad it's what I miss most....a decent cuppa. To have proper tea it really is best to have what we call proper LOOSE LEAF TEA as opposed to tea BAGS. My cup's of ROSEY LEE (cockney London slang) are well known for tasting lovely, so if ever you are near Marchwood (south of Southampton) just let me know guys ? Best Regards Chris
Very civilised.
Always tea first.
The clotted cream is like the butter on bread. So clotted cream first and then jam...
Comments like that start wars. ;0)
@@thegreenknight2658 ....on the other hand ....
Making tea is an English ritual full of controversy especially about whether the milk or the tea goes in the cup first. My Mother always said - and Mother always knows best - the the rich had porcelain cups which would stand the shock of the hot tea going in first, but the poor had earhenware cups which needed to have the milk in first. On the other hand a friend who was a cookery teacher says that putting the milk in first damages its structure when the hot tea is poured on top. We also tell people we do not need sugar because we are sweet enough.
You pays your money and you make your choice.
Betty's is definitely the best but closely followed by the restaurant in the Coach House at Chatsworth House.
I find if you put tea in first and let it brew it stains the cup, whereas if you put a small amount of milk then hot water then tea bag or just tea you don’t get stained cup
@@martinlewis1015 No, no, no. Boiling water goes in the teapot then (Yorkshire) tea and then it must brew for at least 4 minutes. This is a matter of religious doctrine. We have been trying to train the French for almost 20 years.
Malcolm Brown i prefer tea to be hot so putting it into a pot for 4 min would make it much cooler :)
@@martinlewis1015 Not if you have a tea cosy like we do.
Don't get much of that in Merseyside.
Milk always goes first, water second. There is a few reasons for this. The main one being boiling hot water straight onto the teabag 'scolds' it and makes it taste different.
You'll get a lot of ill-informed Northerns arguing otherwise but they're wrong. There's been scientific studies on this, just Google it.
Tea bags? *Tea bags?* Nivver in a month o' Sundays oop 'ere lad- tha'd be drummed out. Aye an' tha can tek it from me, it's "scald" not "scold".😏
Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms is the place to go to. Their main cafe is in Harrogate although they have other places including York.
I couldn't agree with you any more love it every time I'v been, expensive but it's an experience to behold.
Just wish there was a Betties close to where I live.
Is soooo expensive there
@@nigelcarpenter4814 And Ilkley.
I live not too far from where Earl Grey tea was first made.Sad thing is that they didn’t patent it so they get no royalties from it. So sad
You mentioned "high tea" and then corrected yourself. High Tea is the last meal of the day, eaten around 6pm or so, it will consist of a cooked dish, but there will also be cups of tea, perhaps bread and butter and some form of pudding/sweet/desert, call it what you will. It should be differentiated from "supper" which will be eaten rather later and would not normally be served with cups of tea.
Hello this is Fabian from the Cotswolds I hope all are well with the family.The sequence Question please find the attached
www.ohhowcivilized.com/afternoon-tea-101-course-order/
PS The American Page I have sent you is the true sequence
Cream 1st then jam that would be I believe the Devonshire way 2nd jam 1st as with cream 2nd would be the Cornish Way (thought this might be vice versa ) Enjoy
It’s the milk first for precisely the opposite reason, the hot tea could break the china so you put cold milk in first. I have never heard of putting the tea in first. What an outrage!
No, it was that expensive bone China didn’t crack, so those who could afford them put the hot tea in first. ‘Poorer’ people who could only afford cheap pot cups had to put the milk in first to stop their cup cracking. I think everybody puts in the milk first now...
Cream first on scones ? ABSOLUTELY - and 10 out of 10 to Felipe for displaying some sound old-fashioned Anglo-American common sense. Only the Village Idiot - or the Cornish Nationalist (in so far as there's a difference) - would put a dollop of clotted cream on top of the jam. Yikes !! Well done, that man ;-)
My father and maternal grandfather are both proud Cornishmen. And they put the cream on first. Don't tell Devon!
@@chrislyne377
"they put the cream on first"
My God, Chris - don't you know they have Electricity AND the Internet in Cornwall now ? All it takes is ONE member from the militant wing of the Pixies and Pasties Alliance to read that comment (I admire your courage, admittedly), and your car tyres will start going flat on you ! Those Cornish Pixies can be VICIOUS when roused.................................;-)
@@marvinc999 Lol
Funny story, my dad grew up near Ding Dong mine on the Northwest coast and they didn't have electricity nor running water. The postman used to deliver on horseback!
Do your kids speak with a english accent?
Everyone saying they like seeing Americans embracing English culture... but I don't think I've ever seen a "tea house" or know anyone who's been to one. I think it's an antiquated tradition of posh people, or is it a Southern thing? If I go South I'd probably see what it's like in there, shamble in like a Northern sasquatch and ask for Tetleys and get outraged if it's more than 50p. The tea thing is true. I practically have a teapot hooked up to my veins.
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Tell your friend there's no "proper" way of drinking tea, drink it how you like it, she also might like lady grey tea, that is probably nicer weak no milk
Charming, but the English gentry NEVER eat food with their hands.;)
Mark Francis1977 -
"English gentry NEVER eat food with their hands"
This is PERFECTLY true: _I_ , for example, tend to eat MY sandwiches with a spoon..............................
All Brits have their favourite tearoom
Do they?
@@manchestertart5614 you don't? Are you sure you're British?
This isn't a criticism of Lillian and Felipe or anyone, but why do some people make out eat a scone is the equivalent of performing brain surgery. Your English friend in this video seems to want to turn having afternoon tea into some Byzantine ritual. It's your food enjoy it how you want.
It's rude to put your elbows on the table.