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As far as I know, The well to do add the milk to their tea while the lesser classes would add the tea to their milk.
The reason for this is that if you were to pour scalding hot tea into the "peasant class" china it would explode. The milk provides a buffer to the heat of the tea. Those with high quality teacups from "China" would not require this modified presentation.
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