As we sip our tea I would like to share with you
some information I have acquired regarding teas.

In 1840 Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford,
had tea sent to her room one afternoon along
with a tray of bread and butter, and cake.
She formed this habit and found she could not
break it.  Her friends picked up the custom and
as the century progressed, afternoon tea became
increasingly elaborate.
Queen Victoria , relished the new craze for tea-parties. By 1855 the Queen and her ladies
were in formal dress for the afternoon teas.
By the 1880s ladies all over England were
changing into long tea gowns for the occasion,
appetites sharpened by the customary afternoon drive in a carriage.  The tea gowns were soft,
diaphanous, festooned with lace burbelows, and always suitably loose-waisted.

Did you know that most herbal and fruit teas contain virtually no TEA ?
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