As Ed pointed-out, this was a rather common practice in Depression-era
Texas; I've seen my Daddy drink his coffee in this manner (1950s-1960s,
though, as I remember, only when the cup-of-coffee was still
steaming-hot ... when the coffee in the cup had cooled sufficiently,
usually after only one saucer-full, then he continued drinking it
conventionally from the cup ... so I surmise his behaviour had more to
do with efficacious avoidance of a burnt mouth, rather than any ideas of
social conventions); our family were definitely NOT enjoying a "higher
status life" [an elite trait as may be suggested to some from artistic
depictions and etiquette books], but 10th-generation poor-farmer
Americans [Scot-Irish before 1637, Tennesseean hillfolk
late-18th-early-19th-c., east-Texas backwoods after 1839].
Regards,
Bob Skiles
On 3/19/2018 11:39 AM, Keith Doms wrote:
> I have seen it done in movies from the 20s and 30s.
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> I recall people in Texas in the 1930s pouring hot coffee from cup into saucer and letting it cool a few minutes before drinking it from the saucer. And I recall a radio comedian, probably Bob Burns, saying to someone who was complaining that his coffee was too hot, "Here take mine. It's already saucered and blowed."
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> ebj
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> On 3/19/2018 9:49 AM, Cross, Matthew wrote:
>> HistArchers,
>>
>> Thank you for your responses.
>>
>> It appears the idea of people drinking tea from saucers does have some merits. The textural sources speak of it as déclassé behavior in the late nineteenth century, including a number of etiquette books and Laura Ingalls Wilder writing of her father. Jan Selmer shared a 1914 Markovsky painting of a woman drinking (or at minimum, cooling) tea in the saucer. Other paintings and old photographs reviewed do not depict such behavior. The examples of saucer drinking, however, seem to be in the minority. It certainly appears to have been a practice, but possibly more in a faddish manner, maybe restricted to the mid-nineteenth century. Though it is also possible that the behavior may have been class related, as the artistic descriptions and etiquette books depicted a higher status life than the average family.
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>> —Matt Cross
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>> From: "Cross, Matthew" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Friday, February 23, 2018 at 11:53 AM
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>> Subject: Saucer Question
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>> HistArchers:
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>> I have, for years, seen archaeologists and others note that tea was drunk out of saucers in the 19th century. Generally, it is something along the lines of first the tea was poured into the teacup, then poured from the teacup to the saucer to cool the tea, and finally consumed from the saucer.
>>
>> Does anybody have historical references to such behavior? I have only seen modern, anecdotal mentions.
>>
>>
>> —Matt Cross
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