Nov 26, 2018 · I thought I’d provide my own tea glossary and tea terms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gathered from different documents of the 1700 and 1800s. ASSAM TEA = A strong tea with a pungent malty flavor grown in India.

In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and distinctive furnishings. Pride was taken in a correct and fashionable tea table whose equipage included much more …

May 8, 2016 · Afternoon and high teas were made popular by Anna Russell the Duchess of Bedford in the mid-1840’s as a means to take the edge off of hunger as it became more fashionable/custom to push dinnertime to the very late hour of 8:00pm. Afternoon Tea: Taken around 4 o’clock.

Estate inventories and shopkeeper’s account books describe the types of items used for tea drinking. Thomas Whieldon’s potteries near Stoke-on-Trent, England were producing “Whieldon ware,” a creamware in naturalistic forms such as Pineapple ware, …

Apr 17, 2012 · Early in the 18 th c., tea, accompanied by porcelain from which to drink it, and sometimes lacquered tables to serve it on, began to make some figure in the houses of the colonial gentry, who readily followed an English fashion.

Nov 29, 2022 · The pioneers, 1825-1900 : the early British tea and coffee planters and their way of life by Weatherstone, John

The cultivation of the various types of tea is discussed in the Pekin Tea Company’s 1845 Guide to Tea Drinkers. The guide explains the debate between those who believe one plant produces all tea and those who believe there exist multiple varieties of “Tea-tree.”

May 31, 2018 · From the Domestic Management book of 1800, we have the following step by step guide to making the perfect cuppa. As it frequently falls to upper maids and footmen to make tea apart, for company it is felt that a little know how to make it well, a little instruction is required.

Oct 7, 2023 · By the time the Revolutionary War took place, Tea was deeply entrenched into the daily lives of citizens in the original colonies and beyond. Although it was introduced from China in the 17 century, tea quickly became a staple for Europeans and thus the colonists arriving from Europe began to consume this new beverage as well.

Nov 29, 2014 · By the later nineteenth century, a diet of tea alone had become synonymous with abject misery and social marginalisation. Our forthcoming book, Empire of Tea, is deeply interested in such reversals. Tea as commodity, routine, and idea has become deeply embedded in certain imaginaries of Britishness (and Englishness).