I am pleased to share photos of an
Afternoon Tea I had on Sunday
afternoon. We were glad to be down
in the cool tea room and not out in
the hot, sunny garden.
There were 27 ladies from
"Christian Fellowship" who came to
relax and enjoy Afternoon Tea.
Gredia (pronounced Sha-re-tah) offered to
sing and we loved her two beautiful songs.
We had mature women and young women
and our new "Tea Baby" Adalea!
We were honored to have 2 women who were
refugees from the Congo and Caritas Habimana
who was a refugee from Rwanda.
I do things different ways for different
teas and this time I decided to use my
3 tiered servers at the table rather than a
buffet. A few ladies enjoyed hot tea but because
of the heat most of the ladies chose iced tea.
Here is what I served: the scones
were Mixed Berry Cream, the tea
was Decaf and Regular Ginger Peach, Yorkshire
Gold and Blackberry Sage. The Savories
were Cheese Asparagus Quiche, Hot
Pepper Peach Ham Biscuits, and 2 types of Cheddar Cheese crackers. The sweets were Chocolate Peppermints Brownies, Miniature Lemon Pound Cakes and Lemon Fruit Tarts.
I used the recipe for the lemon pound cake given in the link but poured the batter into mini muffin tins and shortened the baking time......they worked perfectly!
One last idea for you here today: I baked the
Cheese Asparagus Onion Quiches in shells.
Instead of using Crisco - I used lard in the
dough - yes lard. I have been wanting to do
this for a long time and I DO LIKE the crust
better! You can buy lard at the market
next to the Crisco. (use the link to the recipe
above just change the cooked asparagus, etc)
Instead of a large quiche - I made mini ones
in the mini muffin tins)
Out in the garden some hydrangeas are
blooming and others are starting to
bloom. Monarda and Cone Flowers
are in abundance and then miscellaneous
flowers. I am so enjoying having a garden.
I baked pretty much all day on Saturday
and early Sunday morning and love, love
my new convectional oven. I also did one
thing wrong by putting my crackers too close
together in baking them - so now I learned
that lesson the hard way which seems to be
my best teacher always!
Here is one of 2 cheese cracker recipes I baked.
This one was the White Cheddar Cheese Recipe from the July/August issue of Victoria. I put
springs of Rosemary on top of mine.