Can Someone Explain Tea and Cream to Me?

Tea and cream is a phenomenon invented by the British and is

also known as “High Tea” , which is at 4:00 P.M. daily. The British

have always called their noon meal dinner , choosing to eat their main meal at this time. By four they will have tea usually served

with biscuits ( similar to our cookies), scones, crumpets or little finger sandwiches ( cucumber is favored). Tea drunk in Britain is

dark pekoe, your average black tea from India. Herb teas and iced tea has never really caught on with the average person. The cream you refer to is the heavy cream that settled on the top of their bottled milk, which I believe is still delivered to the door in glass bottles. About the first 5 inches in whole milk bottle is the cream. They collect it for their tea time and the remainder of the bottle is whole milk used just as we use our cartoned milk here. Later in the evening they may have a sandwich or light snack to round out their food intake. I hope this helped…and good luck !

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Can Someone Explain Tea and Cream to Me?

So…I’ve always heard about people putting cream in their tea and…I was wondering two things:

1. What kind of cream is it? Is it just light/heavy cream or something specific like how there are coffee creams?

2. What kind of teas does cream go good in? Do you just put cream in ANY tea…

Don’t go near tea with cream, only milk. 1 or 2%

In Devon (UK) they serve Cream Teas but the cream refers to the clotted cream they put in the Scones(like Biscuits) with Jam (usually strawberry).

You then get a pot of tea with milk as well.

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods. “Tea” also refers to the aromatic beverage prepared from the cured leaves by combination with hot or boiling water,[1] and is the common name for the Camellia sinensis plant itself.

After water, tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world.[2] It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many enjoy.[3]

The four types of tea most commonly found on the market are black tea, oolong tea, green tea and white tea,[4] all of which can be made from the same bushes, processed differently, and in the case of fine white tea grown differently. Pu-erh tea, a double-fermented black tea, is also often classified as amongst the most popular types of tea.[5]

The term “herbal tea” usually refers to an infusion or tisane of leaves, flowers, fruit, herbs or other plant material that contains no Camellia sinensis.[6] The term “red tea” either refers to an infusion made from the South African rooibos plant, also containing no Camellia sinensis, or, in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and other East Asian languages, refers to black tea.

while the cream tea is

A Cream tea, Devonshire tea or Cornish cream tea[1] is tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream (or in some instances whipped cream), and jam.

Cream teas are offered for sale in tea rooms throughout England (especially the South West) and rest of the Commonwealth, or wherever someone wants to give an impression of British influence.

In the United States it is promoted as a typically English afternoon snack

or

cream tea noun

n [C] mainly UK

a light meal of scones (= small cakes like bread) with jam and cream

Here in the UK people dont put cream IN tea

are you thinking about a cream tea??

a cream tea is an afternoon tea (pot & cups) and cream cakes

usually scones with jam & cream

here is a picture

http://j9marshall.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/crea…

I have never put cream in my tea, only milk

I use just coffee cream and orange pekoe tea. I like it in the stronger teas, and don’t like it in green tea.