Posted by Prue Eckett on June 14, 2006 at 02:11:35 from 219.88.97.127 user PrueEckett.
In Reply to: Re: Milk In Tea posted by Pam Adams on June 13, 2006 at 17:19:11:
I've read that too in various class related novels. The mark of a 'lady' in earlier times was that she put milk in first and those who did the opposite were considered beyond the pale.
Whoever made something like that de regeur should have been shot at dawn - after a nice cup of tea first, of course...