Serving 1-2 people, this teatime treat comes complete with our Roddas clotted cream, our own handmade strawberry jam, Blackcurrant Jam, ...

English Cream Tea Experience - £22.90
A delicious cream tea for 2 people
The Salcombe English cream tea basket is packed in a stylish red gingham lined basket. This delicious foodie gift comes complete with Ro ...

Salcombe Cream Tea Basket - £33.90
A stylish cream tea in a red gingham lined basket
The Okehampton Cream Tea Basket is packed in a stylish slatted wood handled basket. This delicious foodie gift comes complete with Rodda ...

Okehampton Cream Tea Basket - £45.90
Delicious scones, clotted cream, jams, chocolate
The Cornish Cream Tea Basket is packed in a stylish lined basket. This delicious foodie gift serves 16, it comes complete with Roddas cl ...

Cornish Cream Tea Basket - £84.90
Serves 16 - A wonderful cream tea to send

 
About our Cream Tea Baskets
 
Here at Eden4hampers.co.uk we specialise in the delivery of delicious Westcountry Cream Tea Baskets and Cream Tea Hampers. Simply order from our range of Cream Tea products and we'll deliver your delicious gift to any home or business delivery address with the UK required. Deliver is Free - and all our Cream Tea products are available with as fast as next day when you order by 4.30pm, with deliveries completed daily by 1pm. Your  gift card and personal message of up to 150 characters is included at no extra cost.

Traditionally a Cream Tea, Devonshire tea or Cornish Cream Tea is tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream, and jam. Cream Teas are offered for sale in tea rooms throughout England (especially the South West) and are a treat that anyone visiting the area even today must take the time to experience or wherever someone wants to give an impression of English influence.

The exact origin of the Cream Tea" is disputed, although there is evidence to suggest that the tradition of eating bread with cream and jam already existed at Tavistock Abbey in Devon in the 11th century

There are regional variations within England as to how a cream tea should preferably be eaten. The Devonshire (or Devon) method is to split the scone in two, cover each half with clotted cream, and then add strawberry jam on top. Traditionally it is important that the scones be warm (ideally, freshly baked), clotted cream (not whipped), and the jam be strawberry (although raspberry jam is rarely used as an alternative). Butter should never be included, and the tea should be served with milk.

In Cornwall, the cream tea was traditionally served with a "Cornish split", a type of sweet white bread roll, rather than a scone. The warm roll (or scone) should first be buttered, then spread with strawberry jam, and finally topped with a spoonful of Cornish clotted cream.

Another variation to a cream tea is called "Thunder and Lightning" which consists of a round of bread, topped with clotted cream and golden syrup, honey or treacle


Hampers: Firstly A British Tradition
 
It wasn’t until the 19th Century when the hamper became an established British tradition, when it was the task of a noble lady to provide charity to the poor and needy living on her lands. This was usually a food hamper in the form of a wicker basket filled with seasonal fayre, which allowed air to circulate around the food to stay for fresh longer.  Gifts of clothes were also used as padding to wrap fragile items. These may not have been gourmet hampers, but the tradition of giving hamper gifts had now been established. 
 
During the later 1800's with the expansion of the railways it was possible for parcels, hampers and goods to be sent in a matter a just a few days to most parts of the UK. One prestigious London based department store during this period developed the concept for selling the food hamper as a gift that could be sent for Christmas to friends or family. This was at this time a preserve of the wealthy as the costs involved were considerable.
 
Over a hundered years on we find the concept of food hampers and gift baskets as a popular gift to send have spread through nearly every culture and country on a global scale.
 
Eden4hampers.co.uk is one of the few UK hamper delivery companies which is soley web based. Everything with regard to ordering, order tracking and payment can be done online by our customers day or night 365 days a year and with delivery to any UK delivery address as fast as 1pm next day this certainly have changed with regard to sending a hamper in the last 100 years.
 
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