Old Style Afternoon Tea Party

SUESMITH_2

a lovely victoria sponge, cheap to make, mini scones savoury and sweet.a fruit bread of some varity - i love date and walnut

Sunflower1227

Hi,

I took my mum for afternoon tea in a really posh hotel in the lakes for her birthday before christmas, we were served:-

finger sandwiches - various fillings
biscuits - various homemade ones
scones - sweet & savoury

on the table was butter, jam and cream and
lashings of tea

we thought we were finished and then they brought out

fresh cream cakes
toasted tea cakes
crumpets

then

a fresh fruit platter for mum as she is diabetic

its was heaven :T

My sister went to another hotel with friends and they had a glass of champagne served with theirs.

HTHs

Jennie_2

:jScones with jam and cream are a must (and dead easy)
:jLittle fruit tartlets
:jHow about making some Twinknobs (as we call them in our house) but smaller?
:jCupcakes
:jFinger sandwiches

Nothing there that is too hard to make.

Have a lovely time!

zippychick

there is also a thread on Old style afternoon tea party

ill merge this later
thanks
ZIP

greenbee

A friend did this in the summer for her birthday - she asked each of us to bring something which meant there was a great choice.

Lots of good ideas here. I agree with the scones, jam and cream and mini fruit tartlets - or mini lemon tarts (lemon curd) or chocolate tarts (chocolate ganache).
For the sandwiches I'd keep it simple with cucumber, tomato and egg & cress. I'd have one cutting cake (well, depends how many of you there are) something like a victoria sponge with jam and cream dusted with icing sugar, and then some cupcakes - but fairy cake size rather than muffin size or everyone will be too full! There are some great recipes that include putting things like chopped peaches or pineapple at the bottom of the cupcake (peach one has vanilla frosting, pineapple one coconut frosting).

rocketchimp9

Thank you everyone for the replies, think my guests will be spoilt for choice, sunflower if you dont mind me asking what fillings did the sandwichs have at the posh hotel

Sunflower1227

rocketchimp9 wrote: »

Thank you everyone for the replies, think my guests will be spoilt for choice, sunflower if you dont mind me asking what fillings did the sandwichs have at the posh hotel

From memory - cucumber, egg mayo, cheese salad, ham, prawn.

some were cut into triangles and some into fingers, brown & white bread - no crusts.

kippers

I do this every so often for my family...it started off as a joke as my 2 sisters went for 'Tea at the Ritz' so i invited them over to my house for 'Tea at the Kips' (see my name)...now it's a family thing and all my family ask to come and we struggle cramming everyone in.

I just do tea and coffee in china cups (from ebay) and lots of different cakes on pretty cake stands. I try and cook cakes with hidden ingredients from my allotment ie pumpkin muffins, choc courgette cakes, carrot cake etc At one 'tea at the kips' we had a jam tasting session with all the different jams i had made from my allotment fruit...it was fun

shepherdgirl

kippers wrote: »

I do this every so often for my family...it started off as a joke as my 2 sisters went for 'Tea at the Ritz' so i invited them over to my house for 'Tea at the Kips' (see my name)...now it's a family thing and all my family ask to come and we struggle cramming everyone in.

I just do tea and coffee in china cups (from ebay) and lots of different cakes on pretty cake stands. I try and cook cakes with hidden ingredients from my allotment ie pumpkin muffins, choc courgette cakes, carrot cake etc At one 'tea at the kips' we had a jam tasting session with all the different jams i had made from my allotment fruit...it was fun

Any chance of some of your "hidden allotment" cake recipes please -they sound scrummy and fun

tia

SUESMITH_2

oh yes, its got to be china cups! tea tastes so much better out of them

i love afternoon tea - think i will have to do one soon for friends