Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.
Daphne du MaurierTags: food tea cake sandwiches meals afternoon-tea
You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in on a tray or a cart.
Angela HynesTags: tea
[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.
Kakuzō OkakuraTags: humility tea simplicity
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: tea
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
George OrwellTags: civilization tea
There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.
Alan ClarkI don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side ..."
(Englishman in New York)
Tags: food toast tea coffee preferences likings
I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an infusion, which meant that it was vital for the water to be actually boiling when it came into contact with the leaves. He looked at me furiously... I had behaved like this many times before: taking Canute's stance in the path of the great surge of ill-brewed tepid tea that was inundating England.
Will SelfTags: tea boiling-water canute ill-brewed-tea infusion
If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.
Robert RankinI was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity.
Beth PattilloTags: tea
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