. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure i6.âSilver tongs in the rococo style, made by Jacob Hurd. ol" Boston, about 1750. {USj\M j8j§jo; Smithsonian photo 45141.) Ma'am, & ; '"^ Tlie above suggests that the practice of saucer sipping, while it may have been common among the general public, was frowned upon by polite society. The fact that Americans preferred and were "accustomed to eat everything hot" further explains why tea generally was drunk from the cup instead of the saucer. According to Peter Kalm, ''when the English women [that is,
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure i6.âSilver tongs in the rococo style, made by Jacob Hurd. ol" Boston, about 1750. {USj\M j8j§jo; Smithsonian photo 45141.) Ma'am, & ; '"^ Tlie above suggests that the practice of saucer sipping, while it may have been common among the general public, was frowned upon by polite society. The fact that Americans preferred and were "accustomed to eat everything hot" further explains why tea generally was drunk from the cup instead of the saucer. According to Peter Kalm, ''when the English women [that is, of English descent] drank tea, they never poured it out of the cup into the saucer to cool it, but drank it as hot as it came from the ; ^^ Later in the century another naturalist, C. F. Volney, also noted that "very hot tea" was "beloved by Americans of English ; ^^ From this it would a]5pear that "dish of tea" was an expressioit rather than a way of drinking tea in the 18th century. On the tal)le a saucer seems always to have l^een placed imdei' the cup whether the cup was right side up or upside down. Teaspoons, when in use, might be placed on the saucer or left in the cups. The portrait titled Mrs. Calmes (fig. 15), painted Ijy G. Frymeier in 1806, in- dicates that handling a ctip with the spoon in it could be accomplished with a certain amount of grace. Tea- spoons also were placed in a pile on the table or in a " Fithian, op. cil. (footnote 14), p. 133. â ^5 Kalm, np. ctt. (footnote 7), vol. 1, p. 191. ^' C. F. Volney, Tableau du Climal el dii Sol des Elats-Unis, Paris, 1803, quoted in Sherrill, op. cit. (footnote 8), p. 95. siher ''Boat for Tea Spoons," or more often in such ceramic containers as "Delph Ware . . Spoon Trays," or bluc-atid-white or penciled china "spoon ; °' Tongs were especially suited for lifting the lumps of sugar frotn their container to the teacup. During th
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