Traditional tea cakes

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called seed cake which had caraway seeds

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in it

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you might have had a slice of madeira so

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rather a plain dry cake

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some fruit cake

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a great variety of tiny little cakes

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which are really influenced by french

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and

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austro-hungarian bakers don't really

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come in until the 1960s and 1970s you

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might have been a little bit

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disappointed with what you would have

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had in edwardian times

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a debate still rages in england as to

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which order you should put the jam and

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clotted cream on your scone and remember

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scone like gone not scone like home

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anyway in cornwall they believe the jam

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should go on first followed by the

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clotted cream in devon it's the other

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way around as to my view where i keep

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that very much to myself because i

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really do not want to get in the middle

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of a scone wall

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there's a lot of chat about tie

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etiquette but really it's all about

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observing basic good manners and nothing

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more when the tradition started it was a

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rather more formal affair sometime in

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the mid 19th century anna duchess of

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bedford a lifelong friend of queen