title: The National Trust Book of Tea-Time Recipes (NT Cookery Books)
author:  Jane Pettigrew 
description: By sitting down to enjoy a cup of tea and a sandwich or a piece of cake, National Trust visitors are perpetuating the ritual that has its origins in Britain in the mid-seventeenth century, when tea started to arrive via Holland and Portugal which had established trade routs to Japan and China a hundred years earlier. Merchants and aristocrats imported small amounts of China tea into Britain in the 1650s but it was Charles II's marriage in 1662 to Portuguese princess, Catharine of Braganza, that established tea drinking as an accepted practice. Catharine brought to London a large chest of tea as part of her dowry;she quickly introduced this to her friends at court, regular consignments were soon being ordered for the King and Queen, and tea drinking became a fashionable activity. ... Recipes include: Scones, Swiss Roll, Cake, Saffron Cake, Simnel Cake, Sesame Slice, Chocolate Digestives, Banana Cake, Cornish Splits, Easte Biscuits, Fairings, Macaroons, Peanut And Orange Cookies, Blackberry Tea Bread, Abbeys, Fatless Tea Bread, Cornish Black Cake, Sesame Rolls, Hot Cross Buns, Heavy Cake, Chocolate Cake, Date And Apple Slice, Cider Loaf, Dolbury Cake, Fruit Scones, Sticky Lemon Cake, Florentine Slices, Ginger Flapjack, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Plum Loaf, Blaskmore Vale Cake, Traditional Christmas Cake, Bath Buns, Devon Flats, Sally Lunns, Orange Gingerbread, Shortbread, Soda Bread, Bread Pudding, Spice Cake and so many more!
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  Copyright © 1995 by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham.
  
  
  Illustrations © 1995 by Carolyn Vibbert. All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any
  information or storage and retrieval system, without the express permission of
  the publisher.
  
  
  _The Totally Teatime Cookbook_ is produced by becker&mayer!, Ltd.
  
  
  Interior illustrations: Carolyn Vibbert
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
  
  
  Siegel, Helene.
  
  
  _Totally Teatime Cookbook_ / by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham.
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  ISBN 9780890877555
  
  
  eBook ISBN 9781607749110
  
  
  1\. Cookery (Teatime) I. Gillingham, Karen. II. Title.
  
  
  TX819.C6S53 1995
  
  
  641.6’373—dc20 95-10967
  
  
  CIP
  
  
  Celestial Arts Publishing
  
  
  P.O. Box 7123
  
  
  Berkeley, CA 94707
  