HIGH TEA LADIES ARE HERE

 Saturday I had a High Tea for a

group of 9 ladies.  This was like

a supper with a pot of tea.  This

 would not be the darling Afternoon

 Tea finger foods but rather

hardy food the working class

would have normally been served

at the end of the day.

I took this photo of one of the

2 tables, the night before:

Of course, my High Tea was

more elaborate than bread,

cold ham, pickles and cheese but

you get the idea.

This was the 3rd time I had these

ladies this year but our earlier teas

were Afternoon Teas.  Learning the

difference by actually eating the foods

really was a lesson.

 

A FALL AFTERNOON TEA

 Today I had an Afternoon Tea for a 

group I started back in March. (for the 

ladies living in my area)

 I was so glad it wasn't as hot as 

some of the

days we have had

this summer.

This was the table earlier as I was setting

up for 5 ladies plus myself.  As always,

some could not come as we all have

a lot going on.

I recently changed things up down in

the tea room by moving the cabinets

with tea wares to a different wall, moving

the mantle and mirror.  This is where

a husband really comes in handy!

I was blessed to be able to share

some "fallish" English cups

and saucers this time and I had

taken time to copy all the

recipes of the items we enjoyed.

I don't always have time for that

but this time it seemed to happen.

This was the menu and 

we had both iced and

later hot tea:

I always seem to miss taking

 photos of all the food

goodies!

LADIES FOR TEA

May 14th I had a tea for 5 of the ladies

in Columbia, Missouri plus myself

who are in the my "Christian Tea

 Time & Hospitality" FB group.

I love Afternoon Tea and this was

a wonderful time we could get

to know one another. 

So here was our menu:

We had Chicken Salad Mini Croissants

 using the idea in the new Tea Time 

of strawberries  and Mandarin Oranges,

Egg Salad Finger Sandwiches and a 

Ham and Swiss Cheese with mustard 

Puff.  For the Scones we had 

Strawberry Buttermilk and the sweets

 were: 

 Chocolate Peppermint Brownies,

 Caramel Walnut Graham Cracker

Cookies and Lemon Madeleines. 

 We had

Wild Blueberry, Ginger Peach

 and Decaf

Apricot teas.

The shelves here have different themes:

Anne of Green Gables, Jane Austen,

Downton Abbey, Titanic, Queens and

Kings of England, Beatrix Potter, etc.

Friends: Natasha, Stacey,

 Nancy, Judy

and Jennifer

Of course, I wanted to share my garden

with the irises in bloom and the 

foxgloves getting started now.

We took a lot of photos but I

am sharing just a few.  It was

very hot outside.

This is a Christian group so we

had special prayer for America

and for the needs of the ladies

 in our group.  We had wonderful

fellowship encouraging one

another.

Natasha who was born in the

Ukraine took a selfie

with the mirror:

Hope you enjoyed seeing our tea!