Pineapple Vintage » tea http://pineapplevintage.co.uk Welcome to Pineapple Vintage Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:24:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Vintage Tea Party Manners http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/vintage-tea-party-manners/ http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/vintage-tea-party-manners/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:18:04 +0000 http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/?p=342 Tea parties today are informal affairs.  But there are three small points of etiquette. It is ‘not done’ to crook your little finger as you drink your tea – a ridiculous affection which is fairly considered ‘genteel’. There is on the other hand no sound reason for putting the tea rather than the milk in [...]

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]]> Tea parties today are informal affairs.  But there are three small points of etiquette. It is ‘not done’ to crook your little finger as you drink your tea – a ridiculous affection which is fairly considered ‘genteel’. There is on the other hand no sound reason for putting the tea rather than the milk in first, but the fact remains that the more ‘upper class’ the home, the more likely is the milk to go in last. ‘Just as it comes’ is another class pointer. What you are supposed to do when your hostess asks you how you like it is to tell her exactly – ‘weak’, ‘strong’ or ‘very little milk please’.

 

The Pan Book of Etiquette and Good Manners 1962

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]]> http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/vintage-tea-party-manners/feed/ 0 A Key for the Tea! http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/a-key-for-the-tea/ http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/a-key-for-the-tea/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:12:16 +0000 http://pineapplevintage.co.uk/?p=305 Did you know….

In the eighteenth century tea was an expensive luxury, so it would have been locked away in a tea caddy and the mistress of the house or housekeeper would keep the key safely secured on her belt!

 

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In the eighteenth century tea was an expensive luxury, so it would have been locked away in a tea caddy and the mistress of the house or housekeeper would keep the key safely secured on her belt!

 

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