High Tea

Though none of this is food that I've cooked I'd love to host some sort of tea party soon for my girlfriends and I. These photos were actually taken last summer when I was studying abroad in London, England for a month. Wracking my brain I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the place we went to. However, your experience will be more or less the same as long as the place go to offers "high tea". Tea tip: you don't have to be in England to have high tea! There's supposed to be a great one here in Seattle that I've been wanting to check out at The Queen Mary.

 

 This particular high tea was a bit spendy but we got so much tea and food that by the end we were all stuffed and jittery from the caffeine.

 These were fantastic little finger sandwiches with lox and cream cheese, ham and mustard and your (at least for me) stereotypical cucumber sandwich. 

  I went with a few of the girls in my program and we got all gussied up for it.

 Scones with jam and clotted cream. Clotted cream is just about THE BEST form of butter I have ever tasted in my life. Apparently we don't sell it here in the states though, you can order it from Amazon but its pricey for a small little jar. According to this  Clotted Cream Recipe it's easy to make at home. Yay! Basically its sweet and creamy and you're going to want to coat your entire scone in it.

By the time desserts arrived we were soooo full but they were all cute and miniature so we of course had to try them. Two little mini parfaits, crème brûlée, and macaroons. YUM! The place we went (sorry still can't remember the name) brought everything out in courses and we were offered unlimited tea. WHAT?! Yes unlimited tea. I was in heaven. Between chatting and eating and sipping on tea we were there for about three hours. You of course do not have to make that sort of time commitment but if you're going with good friends why not enjoy yourselves!