AFTERNOON TEA WITH SOME CF LADIES

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.