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A Treaty of Serene and Potent Kings
The war of Austrian Succession was over. France was tired. Frederick the Great had won Silesia. England was preoccupied with the Jacobite Rebellion. In London there was more concern for the National Debt than losing the war in Europe. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapell was signed in 1748. The war was inconclusive, so was the treaty and within 8 years England would be at war again. By the middle of the 18th Century Britain's foreign interests were growing. Britain had territories stretching from India to the Americas. A strong foreign policy was required and not one based on traditional relations and animosities in Europe. England's first interest was now trade rather than political or military ambitions.
"March seventeen hundred and forty eight. Breakfast, was almost everywhere partaken of by those more comfortably off, consisted in drinking tea. They ate at the same time one or more slices of wheat-bread, which they had first toasted at the fire and when it was very hot had spread butter on it. In the summer they do not toast the bread, but only spread the butter on it before they eat it. The cold rooms here in England in the winter, and because the butter is then hard from the cold, and does not easily admit of being spread on the bread, have perhaps given them the idea to thus toast the bread, and then spread the butter on it while it is still hot. "Dinner. The Englishmen understand almost better than any other people the art of properly roasting a joint, which is not to be wondered at, because the art of cooking as practiced by most Englishmen does not extend much beyond roast beef and plum pudding".  
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