A Devonshire tea or cream tea is tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream, and jams. Outside England, it is promoted as a typically English and perhaps rather middle class meal, sometimes also referred to as High tea. This is offered for sale in tea rooms wherever English culture is present, or wherever someone wants to give an impression of it. Within England it is a straightforward regional speciality, marketed to holidaymakers but widely eaten locally. A hot cup of tea A tea bush. ... Scones with honey. ... Clotted cream is a treacle-thick yellow cream made by heating and then leaving unhomogenised cows milk in shallow pans, for several hours. ... Jam from berries Jam is a type of fruit preserve made by boiling fruit with sugar to make an unfiltered jelly. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food. ... Tea (a meal, as opposed to the beverage), has different meanings according to country. ... A tea room is a variety of café found particularly in England, but also present in other parts of the UK, as well as Australia, India, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth countries. ...

Other items served at Devonshire Tea may include cucumber or watercress sandwiches with the crusts cut off, various small cakes, and mousses. Purists regard these items as excrescences, and avoid them. ALGERNON: And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell? —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) A cucumber sandwich is, unsurprisingly, a sandwich containing cucumber. ... Species Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (L.) Karsten Rorippa microphylla (Boenn. ...

The name of this tea comes from the county of Devon in England, where it is a local speciality. Some refuse to call it "Devonshire tea" because they dispute that this type of tea is original to Devon. It is indeed served all over South West England, and in England is known just as a cream tea. Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... South West England is one of the regions of England. ...

See also

• Tea sandwich