[yorkietalkjilly]

Ah, but in "A Little Princess", the little girls linger over their toast and muffins in the book and in the movie, "The Little Princess", the same. Why, in UD, as the maids snuggle together, Sarah even has Rose tell her that part of the story of the little girls having their muffins with their tea as the fire blazed. That's where I got the idea - from watching UD and getting carried away with Rose's dulcet tones as she quotes that passage about the toast and muffins.

Actually, my sister and I took a college semester course called "The British Way of Tea" back in the 1990's and we learned about British teas, the culture of tea, what p high tea really is, issues of china, proper teapots, baked and prepared all the British goodies over the 5 months from a high tea to a cream tea, learned of clotted cream crusts, fat content, etc., sampled all kinds of exotic and every day teas and ended our course with a tea at Dallas' "The Mansion" on Turtle Creek Boulevard one lovely spring afternoon. Lord, I'll bet each of us gained 5 lbs. that spring and stayed on a caffeine/sugar/carbohydrate high the whole time. We often have our cream teas to this day. I can do a credible cucumber sandwich and even make crumpets! Don't much care for scones but with enough butter/clotted cream and jam or thick-cut marmalade, they will do! Much, much fun. Beats the heck of the American coffee break if you ask me!

Now I'm hungry again!