{"id":4544,"date":"2012-01-30T23:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2012-01-30T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:24:18","slug":"afternoon-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/afternoon-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\/* <![CDATA[ *\/ portfolio_slideshow.slideshows[523] = {\"timeout\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"false\",\"trans\":\"fade\",\"loop\":1,\"speed\":\"\",\"nowrap\":1}; \/* ]]> *\/<\/script><div id=\"slideshow-wrapper523\" class=\"slideshow-wrapper clearfix portfolio-slideshow-centered\">\n<div id=\"slideshow-nav523\" class=\"slideshow-nav\">\n\t<a class=\"pause\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Pause<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"play\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Play<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"restart\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript: void(0);\">Play<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"slideshow-prev\" 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href=\"javascript:void(0)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"psp-active\" data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/victoriasponge-400x300.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Slide 12\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow-next slideshow-content not-first\">\n\t\t<a class=\"slideshow-next\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"psp-active\" data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/teatable2-400x300.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Slide 13\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow-next slideshow-content not-first\">\n\t\t<a class=\"slideshow-next\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"psp-active\" data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/victoriaspongecut-400x300.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Slide 14\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow-next slideshow-content not-first\">\n\t\t<a class=\"slideshow-next\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"psp-active\" data-img=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/victoriaspongecut2-400x300.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Slide 15\"><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div><\/div><!--#slideshow-wrapper-->\n<p>I made afternoon tea for 8 ladies on Sunday. We made mild fun of them all weekend, because they wanted their tea at 2:00 in the afternoon instead of the more traditional 4:00 p.m., and triple chocolate scones instead of more traditional, plainer scone flavors, eaten slathered with cream and jam. But they were a congenial group and it was a nice little party.<\/p>\n<p>And who&#8217;s to say what&#8217;s authentic, anyways &#8211; I tried to make the food tasty, more than I worried about authentic.<\/p>\n<p>They ate those all-American, certainly not British <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/3x-chocolate-scones\/\">triple chocolate scones<\/a> &#8211; I adapted <a href=\"http:\/\/orangette.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/9-am-sunday-chocolate-chocolate-and.html\">Molly Wizenberg&#8217;s recipe<\/a>. I also made lemon apricot scones, with apricot jam and creme fr\u00e2iche to go with. Cucumber, pineapple cream cheese, and <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/recipe-for-curried-chicken-salad.html\">curried chicken salad<\/a> sandwiches, each with its own flavor of butter spread thinly on a different bread. The cucumber had a creamed butter with mustard &amp; lemon on white; pineapple cream cheese &#8211; pineapple tidbits mixed into cream cheese with toasted almonds &#8211; had honey butter, on thin rounds sliced from <a href=\"http:\/\/pretzilla.com\/sausagebuns.html\">pretzel rolls<\/a>; the curried chicken had plain whipped butter on whole wheat. And Victoria sponge, filled with the fresh tasting, uncooked, refrigerator strawberry jam from the farmers&#8217; market. And two kinds of loose tea &#8211; Earl Grey and Darjeeling &#8211; in teapots, with milk and sugar, and a whole bunch of herbal teas in bags that no one touched.<\/p>\n<p>I took all the pictures with my tiny camera, and I feel a little funny about that &#8211; no composing in the viewfinder. I did like some of the macro shots, the scone closeups, though. I am definitely going to relegate the tiny camera to restaurant food while traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made afternoon tea for 8 ladies on Sunday. We made mild fun of them all weekend, because they wanted their tea at 2:00 in the afternoon instead of the more traditional 4:00 p.m., and triple chocolate scones instead of more traditional, plainer scone flavors, eaten slathered with cream and jam. But they were a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,247],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sandwiches","tag-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}