English Tea

[Secundulus]

Need some help from the English people here.

The ladies in my Anglican Church host a traditional English Tea for the community every year as a fund raiser.

One of them asked me to ask you all what are the traditional English foods they should be serving.

The lady that asked for the help is actually from England, but has been living here in the USA for about 30 years.

So, does anyone have some good ideas?

 

[Sitswithamouse]

Are you talking about an Afternoon english tea or an evening English tea?

If it is an Afternoon english tea then I would say that traditionally that you would serve thin sandwiches with either salmon, egg mayonnaise or if you want to go up market try cucumber or cress sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

Also scones with jam and cream( the best cream would be Devon clotted cream) and maybe a range of small cakes and shortbread biscuits.

(scones + Jam)

 

[tansy]

I agree with the above...you could also make a nice sponge cake

 

[Secundulus]

Thanks. It is in the afternoon so those ideas look great.

 

[TomUK]

If you're going for biscuits then custard creams are a must.

 

[Secundulus]

If you're going for biscuits then custard creams are a must.

That sounds good. I think the only types of creams we have used in the past were the plain white kind, whipped.

 

[Timothy]

Hob Nobs, surely?

 

[tansy]

Hob Nobs, surely?

Yuk...LOL

 

[Markus6]

Yuk...LOL

This poster does not speak for the Church of England. The official position from Canterbury is that Hob Nobs are delicious and the most robust biscuit available for dunking purposes.

 

[Timothy]

I hear a rumour that the Archbishop of York is notorious for going through a large quantity of biscuits.

 

[tansy]

This poster does not speak for the Church of England. The official position from Canterbury is that Hob Nobs are delicious and the most robust biscuit available for dunking purposes.

LOL Ginger nuts are much ncer for dunking

 

[Markus6]

LOL Ginger nuts are much ncer for dunking

Heretical teaching like this is the reason the Anglican communion is in the state that it is!

 

[tansy]

Ah well, i have being rebellious in the matter of biscuits down to a tee LOL

 

[Timothy]

Hob Nobs are God's Own Biscuit (TM)

 

[ebia]

Hob Nobs are God's Own Biscuit (TM)

They go very well with Devon clotted cream.

Unfortunately what passes for clotted cream on this side of the world bears no resembalance to the real stuff.

 

[tansy]

ummm yes...clotted cream. Yum yum yum

 

[TomUK]

Ginger nuts are indeed one of the best dunking biscuits.

 

[liftmeup]

Scones and clotted cream and jam
crumpets and butter
tea cakes, toasted with butter
eccles cakes
cucumber sandwiches
chocolate eclairs
iced buns (fairy cakes)
cherry bakewells
battenburg cake
anything from the Mr Kipling range in fact

 

[tansy]

Haha.....all these suggestions from people, this English tea will be turning into a full-blown banquet!

 

[All Englands Skies]

Plain cake, you know how us English love our plain cake!