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Ideas for a Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea
Celebrate the moms (or mums) in your life this year by giving her a tea to remember. Try our menu below for a few quick ideas. Berry and Citrus Salad with Fresh Mint. Slice strawberries, peel and section oranges, tangerines, and grapefruits, and add blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries. Chop 1-2 sprigs of fresh mint and… Continue reading
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Spring Time Tea Time
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 by type or mix them up… Continue reading
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No Tricks – Just Mini Treats!
Trick or Treat! While children and teens dress up and go out for Halloween festivities, the adults are busy helping the youngsters prepare for one of the biggest nights of the year (next to Christmas). What kind of treat do the ones not trick-or-treating deserve? Maybe a warm cup of tea along with some scones… Continue reading
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Tea and Crumpets
One of the benefits of tea is that it can be paired with many foods. Scones are just the tip of the iceberg. There are cakes, cookies (or biscuits), sandwiches, and today’s topic, crumpets. You can either purchase them or make them yourself at home. You may be surprised to find that crumpets are not actually… Continue reading
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Recipe – Maids of Honour
This is one of my favourite recipes, my Mother made 24 of these most Fridays and they were all gone by Monday! On her 90th Birthday we had a party with a buffet, games and music, and then supper. My husband and I made 94 of these for the supper and although there were only… Continue reading
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Scones, Clotted Cream, and Jam — Oh, My!
Scones, baked fresh and then split open like we would an American-style biscuit, then topped with clotted cream and jam are the quintessence of Afternoon Tea heaven. Yet, there is some discord out there among aficionados about which to plop on that scone first: the clotted cream or the jam! A real dilemma. The operative… Continue reading
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Tea and Jam, Plain and Simple
It all began innocently. One day I was making my usual favorite afternoon tea—Darjeeling, with toast and jam. Not exotic; I like things plain and simple. I smoothed the jam—in this case orange marmalade–thick on my toast, and then found myself looking thoughtfully down into the jam jar, while I remembered reading of the idea… Continue reading
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Scones — The Ideal Tea Time Treat
Cookies are great, sandwiches, too, but scones are the ideal teatime treat. That’s this tea lover’s opinion. Of course, the fact that people around the world eat scones with their tea on a daily basis can be pretty persuasive when one is contemplating the plethora of choices available to accompany a cuppa tea. So, why… Continue reading
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Tea Time Jam Session
Your teatime can be a real jam session — no, not music, but real, fruity, yummy jams to sweeten your palate. I’m talking about strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, peach, apricot, pear, and lots more. Spread thin on toast or globbed on thick on your scone, biscuit, crumpet, or muffin, jam will liven up your teatime as… Continue reading
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