Andy Dingley > wrote in message >. ..
> On 22 Jan 2004 04:00:31 -0800, (Dieter Folz) wrote:
> >I Don't understand that? sipping from the sauer? Does this mean, you
> >put tea out of your cup onto the saucer and drink it from it then?
>
> In Georgian times, I believe that "saucer" meant something larger and
> used without a cup. It was like a Scottish tassie, or the French
> morning coffee bowl.
Well, I just learned, that in the bourgeois-philitinistic German
Biedermeier (1815?1848), it was very "posh" and common in those
bourgeois circles (during a "Theegesellschaft"), to drop the hot tea
from the cup onto the saucer and then sip the tea from it.