We recently had a "High Tea" at our church, & each table had a hostess who brought in her own china & teapots. One hostess had a lovely set of china with a small round saucer abt the same diameter as a coke can. She was using them for lemon slices & I thought they might have been butter pat dishes, but she said no, her grandmother had explained that 's where yu put your teacup when you were drinking the spills out of the regular saucer! (I think she said her grandmother was Dutch). Pat H. ----- Original Message ----- From: <genefricks@comcast.net> To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE] Coffee from the saucer > > Drinking coffee (or tea) from the saucer is an old cultural trait still > occasionally seen among oldsters in Ireland, the north of England and the > border of Scotland. I seem to recall reading years ago that it dated from > when only small plates were available but no cups back before Shakespeare. > May have been a case of "we've always done it that way." > > Gene Fricks > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCAMPBE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >