In a message dated 23/07/2012 13:26:50 GMT Daylight Time, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com writes: From: JJupar@aol.com > In a message dated 23/07/2012 11:06:15 GMT Daylight Time, > martin@mbriscoe.me.uk writes: > English High Tea would be a light snack of cakes and tea but it used to be > quite common for Scottish hotels to do a High Tea between about 1700h > (perhaps earlier) and 1800h (or later) with Dinner starting some time after > 1900h. > > The menu would have a range of simple cooked dishes like sausage and chips, > fish and chips etc which were served with plenty of toast then followed by > a > range of cakes and jam for the toast. Often the cooked dish would be > similar of the same as those on the main Dinner menu so it could be cheaper > alternative to Dinner without all the pomp. > > There would obviously be a big pot of tea or coffee as well. > > > Martin Briscoe > Fort William > martin@mbriscoe.me.uk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of JJupar@aol.com > Sent: 23 July 2012 10:45 > To: kessie3@online.de; YORKSGEN@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] High Teas > > In a message dated 23/07/2012 09:30:32 GMT Daylight Time, > kessie3@online.de > writes: > When I asked my mother what a "High Tea" was she told me it's when you > stand up and eat your tea off the shelf...... (mining humour...all her > family were miners).Rita in Germany > > Hi, > > When you look at other peoples High Teas they seem to vary between > countys. However it seems to vary a bit. The working and middle class families > have a big High Tea but the upper classes have a lighter afternoon tea > with sandwiches and littler cakes because they are going to have another meal > later. > > I am not class conscious but and I didn't know how to explain it > otherwise. > > JUDY ELKINGTON > [North Derbyshire]> All this talk of High Teas with sausage and chips, cakes and sandwiches, etc, is making me wonder what sort of childhood and upbringing listers had. When I were nobbut a kid in'th' wartime we were lucky to get a piece of stale bread with pork dripping for 'us tea! What's more, because our parents couldn't afford to buy us shoes we were sent to school with more pieces of hard, stale bread strapped to 'us feet. Cue Monty Python's wonderful Five Yorkshiremen sketch.....! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE Hi Roy, I hope you had a better childhood that you have made out to have. I don't remember bread being used for mending shoes but I do remember cardboard to keep the wet out of the holes. I think we should all take a pinch of salt with what Roy tells. Keep it up Roy it cheers my day. JUDY ELKINGTON [North Derbyshire] www.elkingtonfamily.com Elkington@rootsweb.com www.one-name.org/profiles/elkington.html