Meal names (was: Re: Pies, puddings, biscuits and tarts)

[sandon96]

> 
> And what I ate in the evening as a child growing up, was 
> technically "high tea", a portmanteau meal consisting of a simple 
> cooked dish, with bread and butter and - well, tea, of course, as 
> well as pudding (or dessert as we called it) and cakes.
> 
> ~Eloise

Thank you, Eloise, for clearning up a mystery for me. I have a 
wonderful cookbook by Annabel Karmel, a Londoner, who uses Tea in her 
meal planner. Yet, I'm still confused as to what time Tea would roughly 
be. 

It's a cookbook for feeding your baby/toddler and planning family meals 
together. The planner has  menu ideas for breakfast, lunch, tea, and 
dinner. I can figure out breakfast and lunch, but a Tea listing might 
include pasta with vegetables and fruit and yogurt gelatin, and then 
Dinner would be a leek and potato puree served with fruit and juice. 
Sometimes tea seems like a heavier meal, and other times dinner seems 
to be it. And I know I don't have to follow the menu plans, but I'm 
just curious when all this food would fit in to our day.

And to the HP mom who posted her child just learned to crawl (Sorry, 
too lazy/short of time to go digging for your name), I give you Moody's 
best advice: Constant Vigilance! Nick began crawling three weeks ago, 
and I am running around the house with him as he conquers the stairs, 
curtains, prying the little safety electrical plug ins out, saving the 
cat's tail from being pulled/chewed on, etc. To think that I looked 
forward to this day! :) It is so much fun, though, to watch him explore 
his world. I love the "aha!" moments when he discovers something new, 
something so simple as the floor sounding different when he goes from 
the carpet to the wood. He sat there transfixed for a good minute or so 
patting each side of the floor before he spied the cat and took off 
again.

Last, I was absolutely delighted to find Double Devon Cream being sold 
at our grocery store. I whipped up a batch of James Beard's Cream 
Scones, brought out the homemade strawberry jam from last summer's 
crop, and settled to enjoy a taste of England that I haven't had for 
over 10 years. MMMMMmmmmm, what it lacked in atmosphere, it made up in 
taste. 

Stacie