Milk first or last? When you pour hot water into thin and lower quality china cups, they are bound to crack and break.

Long ‘o’ or scone like ‘gone’? According to etiquette experts, scone with a short ‘o’ is the correct pronunciation.

More than one way to pronounce “scone” – how to pronounce scone is a whole other debate.

Those monks knew that to properly enjoy their tea time, and scones where the way to go.

10th-century monks invented cream tea – although afternoon tea is certainly a Victorian tradition, we must extend our thanks (I know I do) to 10th century monks for the invention of cream tea.

Naturally, this only applies for those from Devon and Cornwall, anyone else may simply choose their preferred method!

Devon and Cornwall – they do cream tea differently! A scone cannot be fully appreciated without jam and clotted cream, but which gets layered on first? The jam or the cream? Well, if using Cornish clotted cream, their procedure is to first smear the jam and then the cream, whereas the Devonians -with Devonshire clotted cream – do the opposite.

What is the afternoon