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Iced tea

The Drink Cora Grew Up On, and Never Served at Downton

downtonabbeycooks · July 2, 2026 ·

Cora, Countess of Grantham, grew up in Cincinnati in the 1870s and 80s. Her family was new money, the kind Gilded Age America minted by the trainload. By the time she married into the Crawley family in 1890, she'd almost certainly grown up drinking iced tea. She'd also have known … [Read more...] about The Drink Cora Grew Up On, and Never Served at Downton

Filed Under: Blog, Fun Food History, Garden Parties, Gilded Age, July 4, Kentucky Derby, Picnic, Summer Tagged With: history of iced tea, Iced tea

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