Tea party help?!
Answers: are proper tea parties baby-ish? because i am 14 and i like tea parties. how can i throw a grown up tea party? please HELP ME
[*]Lots of sandwich ideas below but you can sort of take the idea and go. Chicken salad, ham salad, pimento cheese layers on light and dark bread. Cut off crusts and make little soldiers. Hot small yeast rolls with butter and jam. Donuts, cream filled donuts, eclairs, tin of Danish cookies, Brownies, varied cupcakes- decorated, tiny tarts and one or two cakes at least, could do various cake squares (iced or dusted with sugar). If you can get all of your friends to bring a different dessert with you making the suggestions, you'd have the makings of a great sleepover, part of the fun would be in the "getting things just so...!." Maybe you could talk mom into some of those fake plastic party plate sets...although if you could form a club...each girl could have her own tea and dessert set...The more unique the better. (Goodwill, Salvation Army, Design a cup/plate) [*]
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From the Book:
You must be dressed in "proper attire", no jeans, short, sneakers. Ladies hats Are allowed.. Tactful lighting with a rose tint. Table cloths, cloth napkins. Place all the foods in decorative containers or on decorative plates/platters. A small variety of sandwiches etc. on one large platter made just for two.
Tea at the Ritz, sandwiches arrive on blue and white china,
Starts --
with crust-less finger sandwiches that layered with six fillings:
Brown bread layers: cucumber, cream cheese with chopped chives, salmon.
White bread layers: smoked ham, may with mustard and cress, finely grated cheddar cheese.
Other Sandwiches for tea: Cucumber sandwiches,egg, shrimp, Welsh rarebit ( think open face buttered bread with grated cheddar cheese toasted under broiler (not really but you're too young for wine/ale), deviled ham toasts, mashed banana with cream and brown sugar, peanut butter and jelly,, red-currant jelly and peanut butter, smoke salmon, cream cheese with white and brown bread, pear/walnuts/cream cheese, cinnamon toast, crumpets, English muffins (think small yeast rolls with butter and various jams to fill them with), tea cakes (recipe reads a lot like donuts), drop scones or Scottish pancakes.
Next: Scones with cream and jam
Then comes
Cakes and pastries & puff pastries with whipped cream and icing or thin slices of sweet fruit (think cream puffs, eclairs, strawberry tarts)
English Cakes--Maderia, coconut, seed, marble, Sponge cakes,, brandy snaps, fruit cake
Foreign cakes: Madelines, macaroons meringues, florentines, brownies, devil's food cake
Other cakes:Rock cakes, Flapjacks, shortbread,various gingerbreads.
Lots of varied jellies and jams, butter.
And Tea:
Assam, Darjeeling, Nilgirl, Ceylon, Keemun, Jasmine, Lung Ching, Formosa OOlong
Lots of different flavors and of course some blends:
Earl Grey,Lady Londonderry, Russian Caravan
Start with an empty kettle, rinse, add cold water, just before water comes to a boil, warm tea pot. Pour boiling water over teal leaves. Allow tea to stand and brew three to six minutes, stir tea and strain into another container or cup. Add cold milk to cup before pouring the tea.
making food such as scones and muffins will add a more adult feeling to any tea party as well as offering a variety of teas such as mint earl grey etc. and using fine china can give it a very grown up air to it. you may even dress up if you like in fine clothes.
make or buy gourmet tea sandwiches. and get different varieties of tea..since your 14 youlll probably like white,green and flavored teas..and get good teaware.
use real cups and plates (glass) instead of paper or blastic ones (that if you lot will take care of them)...
try to add some biscuts and cakes that are made with an adult look not in a fanky animal shapes
dress the table with a table clothin a light lovely colours like green, pink, lime anything bright... and not those with winnie the pooh and his group' images!!
simple staff will give you the look of 5***** hotal' tea party, and make sure you add mini muffins to the menu as they are the best thing in real tea parties