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Serve Fancy Appetizers. With all the frilly dresses, beautiful decor, and delicate finger foods, tea parties are the perfect time to go all out with fancy flourishes.
Parade. This simple, impressive dessert starts with a store-bought pie crust. Add a little sugar, cinnamon and butter and bake until lightly browned.
Katherine Gillen. Time Commitment: 1 hour and 10 minutes Why I Love It: make ahead, crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly Serves: 12 Pickles aren’t going out of fashion anytime soon, so this crunchy ...
A tea tray with elements of an afternoon tea. English afternoon tea (or simply afternoon tea) is a British tradition that involves enjoying a light meal of tea, sandwiches, scones, and cakes in the mid-afternoon, typically between 3:30 and 5 pm. It originated in the 1840s as a way for the upper class to bridge the gap between lunch and a late ...
Queen Victoria reportedly ordered "16 chocolate sponges, 12 plain sponges, 16 fondant biscuits" along with other sweets for a tea party at Buckingham Palace. [2] The afternoon tea party became a feature of great houses in the Victorian and Edwardian ages in the United Kingdom and the Gilded Age in the United States, as well as in all continental Europe (France, Germany, and the Russian Empire).
The most common elements of the tea meal are the drink itself, with cakes or pastries (especially scones), bread and jam, and perhaps sandwiches; these are the pillars of the "traditional afternoon tea" meals offered by expensive London hotels. [3] Other types of both drink and food may be offered at home.
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The cucumber tea sandwich in particular is considered the quintessential tea sandwich. [2] A cucumber sandwich made with Benedictine is a classic in Kentucky, US. [5] Other popular tea sandwich fillings include tomatoes, pimento cheese, ham with mustard, smoked salmon with cream cheese, fruit jam, curried chicken, fish paste, and egg salad.