# Give The Gift of Tea

**By Bold Apps** · 2018-04-05

What do you get the Brit who has everything? (Because let's face it, if you're a Brit, you already have wit, charm, and an accent enviable by the entire North American continent...what more could you really want??)

A Brown Betty. 

Reaching peak popularity in the Victorian Era, Brown Betty teapots were - and still are -created from clay originating in the Stoke-On-Trent area. 

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Why is it called a Brown Betty? The brown is easy. Traditional Brown Bettys are covered in a Rockingham Glaze, which gives it its brown color. The Betty? Well read what this American anglophile dug up on her blog "[Tea in England](http://teainengland.com/2012/10/a-potted-history-of-the-brown-betty-teapot/)": 

_In the 1800’s no self-respecting house in England was run without at least one servant. As “Elizabeth” was a very popular name at that time, odds were that you had a servant named Elizabeth. And Elizabeth – shortened to Betty – would have served the tea. Some believe that the special brown teapot came to be known as a “Betty” or a “**Brown Betty**“. But no one knows for sure._ 

Brown Bettys are the most historically English teapot, come with an excellent story, and brew the finest tea. What are you waiting for? [Get the perfect gift](https://www.britishfoodsupplies.com/products/brown-betty-2-cup-teapot?variant=28420434243). 

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> Source: [British Food Supplies](https://www.britishfoodsupplies.com/blogs/blogs/give-the-gift-of-tea)