A proper high tea

Here is what a proper British high tea looks like.

On the bottom it's a meat pie, a spinach pie, and a tomato pie.  In the middle there are salmon-and-cream-cheese, chicken, and cucumber sandwiches.  On the top there's... oh, I've forgotten exactly, but I think it was a lemon madeleine, a chocolate brownie, a lemon tart, a date cake, and a strawberry tart with cream.  Plus any kind of tea you like, in a fancy loose-leaf filter apparatus and plenty of fresh cream and sugar.

I fully endorse high tea as the absolutely most civilised way to press 'pause' on an otherwise hectic day.