In the coaching inn guests were usually offered tea with cookies, butter, milk, jam, honey and sugar in the form of the so-called "sugarloaf." During the tea the small pieces of the "sugarloaf" were nipped off with the help of special tweezers, put into the mouth and washed down with a hot drink. Sometimes sugar pieces were previously dipped in tea. Drinking tea with a bit of sugar was considered provident, while adding sugar to tea would spoil the taste of the drink.
