![]() Getty What is the difference between a high tea and afternoon tea? ![]() ![]() Today, afternoon tea is "still a graceful event, and brings people together for a brief hour's pleasure and refreshment". There was a newly translucent delicacy about the tea china itself thanks to Josiah Spode, who had at the start of the century invented bone china, a beautiful and inexpensive form of porcelain which kept tea hot even though it was so fine that you could see your fingers' shadows through it." "Tea services had also kept pace, with side plates, bread and butter plates, cake stands and every conceivable accompaniment advancing across the drawing room. There was no looking back.Īccording to Helen Simpson in The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea, "By the 1880s ladies were changing into long tea gowns for the occasion, appetites sharpened by the customary afternoon drive in a carriage." Her friends rather liked this idea and the trend took off. Over the past 25 years, it's become commonplace to call the traditional British "afternoon tea" (an elegant affair involving dainty finger sandwiches, scones and delectable sweet morsels), "high tea".Īfternoon tea has its origins in the early Victorian era of Britain, when Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford, took to summoning a tray of tea, bread and butter, and cake to her room when her spirits started to flag at 4pm. But it hasn't always been called high tea. ![]() High tea is one of the most popular experiences offered by hotels around Australia. ![]()
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