When we imagine a Regency tea table, it is easy to picture delicate china, silver spoons, beautiful gowns—and perhaps a neat tower of the familiar scones and sandwiches we associate with afternoon tea today.
But that picture belongs more to the Victorian era.
The formal custom of afternoon tea is generally associated with the 1840s, after the Regency peri…
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