"The Canadian Home Cook Book," compiled by the Ladies of Toronto and Chief Cities and Towns in Canada (1877), offers these bills of fare for high teas:
1: Tea, coffee and chocolate, biscuits, oyster sandwiches, chicken salad, cold tongue, cakes and preserves and ice cream and cake later in the evening.
2: Tea, coffee and chocolate, escalloped or fried oysters, muffins, sliced turkey and ham, cold biscuits, sardines and sliced lemons, thin slices of bread rolled, sliced pressed meat, variety of cakes.
Tea types vary, but Indian, Ceylon and China tea were popular. Green and black were stored in a tea caddy in two boxes with a mixing bowl in the middle to create your own blend.
