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Ways to eat cookies at English tea parties

Don't attend formal afternoon tea parties, and don't pay much attention to eating cookies as snacks. If you have salty snacks, eat salty snacks first and then sweet ones ~ roughly in this order.

Orthodox afternoon tea is "LowTea", which is enjoyed on a low coffee table or coffee table and is mostly used for communication. "HighTea" is generally a snack for working-class people before meals.

Usually, the first floor of a three-story tower will be filled with salty sandwiches, such as ham and cheese, but these sandwiches are not made by the pastry chef, but by another sandwich chef. There are desserts on the second and third floors. Generally speaking, there is a strawberry tower on the second floor, which is necessary for English afternoon tea. Others, such as puffs, biscuits or chocolate, are matched by the chef at will. There is no fixed dessert on the third floor, but the chef will choose suitable snacks, usually cakes and fruit towers.

Three-layer dessert porcelain plate, afternoon tea dessert aristocratic traditional Victorian afternoon tea in England, all using three-layer dessert porcelain plate. On the ground floor, you can put some salty snacks with a sandwich, such as sandwiches and croissants. There are salty and sweet snacks on the second floor, but there are generally no sandwiches, such as traditional snacks such as English scones, muffins and bacon rolls. There are cakes and fruit towers on the third floor, as well as some small desserts.

The order of refreshments should follow the law of light and heavy, salty and sweet. Starting from the bottom of the three-layer dessert plate, taste the slightly salty sandwich first, let the taste buds taste the real taste of the food slowly, and then sip the fragrant black tea. Next, English muffins coated with jam or cream, the sweetness of filar silk slowly spreads in the mouth, and finally, sweet and thick fruit towers and cheesecakes are put into the mouth bit by bit, so that the sweetness slowly rises.

Sandwiches and croissants at the bottom can relieve hunger, just like the main course in dinner; Dingguota is a kind of cake with high sweetness, just like dessert in dinner.

Scones, handmade biscuits and croissants are all unique and indispensable snacks in English afternoon tea. These snacks are all handmade in Victorian era, and now they taste better when baked.

There are many modes of English afternoon tea, each of which includes different foods, but all of them are inseparable from black tea with milk and sugar. The simplest are milk tea, light tea and whole tea.

Milk tea, also called afternoon tea in Denver, is a major feature of Denver, England. Denver was the first place to serve bread with butter and jam. Afternoon tea in Denver includes: tea, Si Kang (a heavy English scone), condensed cream and strawberry jam. The authentic way to eat is to break Si Kang into two halves, each half is coated with concentrated cream, and then the cream is coated with strawberry jam.

Precautions: Sikang wants hot food, preferably freshly baked; Cream should be concentrated and not sent away; The most jam is strawberry; Drink milk tea.

Light tea includes: tea, Si Kang and candy. Light tea means smaller than whole tea. There are cupcakes, MadeleineCake (a bit like fluffy biscuits), sponge cake (a very soft cake, often accompanied by whipped cream and jam) and trivial desserts.

All teas include: tea, salty food, Si Kang and candy. Compared with light tea, there are more salty foods, such as small sandwiches, pickled nuts, cheese, salty soda biscuits and so on. Sometimes even thick soup.