This book features a selection of teatime ideas, such as Mrs Beeton's special cream tea, high tea for hungry travellers, warming winter teas and picnic teas. The book includes advice on how to make a good cup of tea, recipes for cakes, biscuits, scones and sandwiches as well as suggestions on decorating the tea table. This series of "Mrs Beeton books" contains both fragments from Mrs Beeton's original edition of "Cookery and Household Management" and more modern ideas for cooking and presenting meals.