Soup - At Home Card

Its soup season in Australia. This soup was so delicious, I put in a smoked ham hock, some left over curry potato and mackerel, mushroom and spinach sauted in butter, stir fried veges, can of creamed corn and corn kernels, carrots, potato. Cooked in a slow cooker for 6 hours. It was very delicious, I shared it with friends as there was so much.

Meanwhile.........

Love these rules of yesteryear, how times have changed. While growing up we would always have a huge pot of food on the stove ready for any drop in visitors - today I still carry that legacy but the visitors don't drop in like before, so we have lots of left overs.
What I don't understand in this day and age that people do not have enough to feed you when they invite you, one is always left hungry. Usually its the people who have money not the people who are cash strapped that this experience is with or is it a cultural thing? Anyway each to their own.

I saw this on Great British Tea Party.

The "At Home" day signifies a lady is at home to her friends and acquaintances on one particular day in the week.

On the "At Home" day, calls should be made from three to six, or from four to six. The first comers should leave before the afternoon tea hour and should limit their call according to the degree of intimacy existing, remaining from a quarter of an hour to an hour, as the case may be.

The popularity of a hostess is tested on these "At Home" days by the number of visitors who call during the afternoon, and when "At Home" days are not a success, socially speaking, she should discontinue them after a certain time, and should substitute an occasional "At Home."

It would be a breach of politeness not to be at home to callers on an "At Home" day, and many things might occur to necessitate absence from home on that particular afternoon. If, however, absence is unavoidable, a relative might take the place of the hostess on the "At Home" day in question.

The tea hour varies from 4 to 4.30 o'clock. When callers are present at 4 o'clock, tea should be brought in at that hour.

A Hostess or her Daughter should pour out the tea on these "At Home" days when tea is not served in the dining-room as at "At Homes," which should be done when the number of visitors is very considerable.

Extracted from MANNERS AND RULES OF GOOD SOCIETY BY A MEMBER OF THE ARISTOCRACY, 39TH EDITION, 1918

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