Photo by Olya Kobruseva on Pexels.com With the weather outside improving and most pandemic restrictions being lifted it’s a perfect time to have a spring tea party. Start out by setting out a selection of finger sandwiches of egg salad, chicken salad, or cream cheese and vegetable cut into little rectangles. You can group them …
Tag: Biscuits
Recipe – Orange Tuile Biscuits
Looking through an old recipe book of my Mother's for something tasty to make I came across these biscuits. They always looked impressive after they had been wrapped round the rolling pin and they do taste nice. You will need: 3 large egg whites 4 oz icing sugar 4 oz plain flour Finely grated zest …
Recipe – Lemon Biscuits
Who likes anything with lemon in it? Most of you I am guessing. Even my hubby likes these biscuits and he does not like lemon! The recipe for these biscuits is very old and I can no longer read the name but I know it was from an old Italian lady and began with B. …
Recipe – Savoy Biscuits
Savoy Biscuits or Lady Finger cakes can be eaten alone - with a cup of tea - or used as the sponge in a trifle. Remember we made a trifle with trifle sponges broken into pieces well you can use these if you like instead. There are softer and soak up the alcohol better or …
Recipe – St. Valentine’s Day Biscuits
Now they say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach so let's make some nice chocolate biscuits to offer him on St. Valentine's day. This recipe makes 20 biscuits and if you have a heart shaped biscuit cutter they will look very special. Oven 375 F 190 C gas …
Recipe – Domino Biscuits
Whilst the children are at home on holiday from school get them baking these domino chocolate biscuits, which are quite easy to do especially if you have a rectangle cutter. I do not have one so had to do it by hand! You can make about 24-30 biscuits with this mixture. …
All About Biscuits + Recipe
When drinking tea, what would you think goes along with a nice cuppa tea?! While one may prefer a tea sandwich, a little cake, but for some, there are tea biscuits. There is a wide variety that you could either make or purchase that simply make tea more enjoyable and more filling. It’s what helps …
Recipe: Viennese Fingers and Rosettes
Hello everyone, this is Julia from over the pond with my first blog and recipe. These Viennese fingers and rosettes are made with a kind of shortbread mixture and are very rich. I hope you enjoy making them and eating them with a nice cup of tea. 6 oz (1 1/2 sticks) butter 2 oz …
Snacking British Style
Snacking British style is part of this tea lover’s secret for living the “tea life.” Since my preference is for a more British style tea time, this seems only natural. Now, I pass on that secret to you. What constitutes “snacking” in Britain is pretty much the same as here. It’s basically grabbing something to …
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