Afternoon teas have become so popular that a website has been designed in order for you to find your local afternoon venue in London. http://www.afternoon-tea-london.co.uk/restaurants/default/index.asp Afternoon Tea London offers you real-time availability into LondonÂ’s best afternoon tea restaurants, enabling you to make your reservation at a time that suits you. With instant confirmation into your chosen afternoon tea restaurant, you always get the peace of mind that your table has been booked. There is no cost for booking any of their restaurants and you can easily cancel or amend your restaurant reservation at any time.
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Home baking classes, cupcake and Victoria sponge and choc-making and desserts http://www.thecookeryschool.org/ New – Come cook ‘n’ eat with me – A great new concept from The Cookery School. In the afternoon you will enjoy a Cookery Course during which you learn to cook an exciting meal and in the evening invite 2 friends to come and eat what you cook. You can either serve them personally or have the waiting staff serve them. The afternoon begins with a Chefs Briefing, then you will be taught how to cook each course in turn. When your guests arrive you will cook…
The Skinny French Kitchen is a French cookery book which has been given a new makeover to cut down the calories before arriving all slim at the table, but without losing any of the flavour. It’s by Harry Eastwood
With so many flavours around now it is difficult to decide which one to choose, so I thought I would start commenting on different tastes of tea. For this post I will be talking about Ginger and Lemon. There are a number of supermarkets that have this tea from M&S Lemon, ginger and ginseng tea, Aldi diplomat lemon and ginger, Tesco lemon and ginger infusion and the usual tea maker Twinnings, lemon and ginger tea. Lemon is a refreshing taste and ginger can be very soothing but they all have there own individual taste. The cheapest is Aldi and the…
Chococo Chocolate Cookbook by Ryland Peters and Small who are both passionate artisan chocolate makers based in Dorset, will make anyone’s mouth water. With the first recipe tempting your taste buds ‘Pure Dark Chocolate truffles’ to the bitter end of the book which finishes with ‘Baked Alaska Chococo style’, you wont want to put this book down. They say it should ‘encourage you to make a range of easy- to-make chocolate recipes, including cakes, mousses, sundaes, cookies, muffins, tarts, brittles, salamis, truffles & more, with flavours inspired by many of our best-selling & award-winning fresh chocolates’. The best thing of…
Until the mid-18th Century, the tax on tea was so high that it encouraged a thriving black market. No duty was pain on tea smuggled into Britain and tea was so popular that big money could be made illegally. More tea was smuggled into Britain than was imported legally. In 1785 after demands for legitimate tea merchants, the government slashed the duty on tea and tea smuggling was wiped out overnight.
Clivedon House Hotel, in Taplow has claimed that it has launched the world’s most expensive afternoon tea. It has been created by their head chef Carlos Martinez whose afternoon tea for two, which costs £550 per couple ! includes white truffles at £2,250 per kilogram, Beluga caviar at £4,000 per kilogram, and Da Hong Pao Tea,which is harvested from one-thousand-year-old plants. Included in your afternoon tea is a glass of Dom Perignon Rose champagne and cake using Amedi Porcelana, which is the most expensive chocolate in the world. If you want to finish of with a coffee then expect to…
Ingredients 4 x Plain Croissants 4 x level dessert spoonfuls of apricot or strawberry preserve 1 x 400g Plain Dark Chocolate Icing sugar for dusting Method Preheat oven to 325F, 160/170C Gas 3 Split the croissants Spread a dessert spoonful of your choice of preserve onto the bottom half of the croissant Top with some broken chocolate pieces Pop into the oven for 5 mins for the chocolate to melt slightly Dust with icing sugar then serve.
For anyone who has a passion for tea and scones. Caroline Hope holds baking and tea tasting classes in Wells Street, Central London. You can learn more about tea at one of the tea tasting classes or bake beautiful scones or cakes at one of her baking classes. For more information contact Caroline on 020 7580 8787 or look on her website www.teaandscones.org.uk
There are a number of collectable tea pots with some increasing in value all the time. One such designer is Annie Rowe who was born in Lancashire and spent her childhood in London where she later studied a four year degree in Art and Design. She has been designing collectables for over 20 years, drawing upon her love of nature and her travels around the world. She started her working life in publishing and advertising before using her skill to create top quality collectables. One of my favourite tea pots of hers is from The Village Teapot Collection, Spring Cottage…
YOGI CHOCOLATE TEA ESPECIALLY FOR SKYLA 7777… I have it on good authority, from blog friend Skyla 7777,that Yogi Choco Tea is absolutely gorgeous and also the tea bags have little positive messages hanging off the bag like ‘take time to contemplate and deliberate’ . Its available from lots of different health stores online but also available at Holland & Barrett which is where I am going to get some from tomorrow. Apparently it was inspired by the ancient Aztec´s most respected drink, “Xocoatl”: chocolate, cassia cinnamon, vanilla, and pepper. A children’s favourite, Choco has a mild chocolate flavour with…
What exciting news it was to hear that cocoa is so rich in health benefits that it may decrease blood pressure and improve cholesterol. I’ll be back but I’m off to bake a chocolate cake!!
Ingredients 1 x cup of mixed dried fruit 1 x mug of Earl Grey Tea 1 x tsp bicarbonate of soda 2 apples, peeled then grated 1.25 cups of Self Raising Flour Half a cup of brown sugar 150g/5.25oz melted butter 1 x tsp vanilla essence 4 med eggs Method Preheat overn to 160C, 325F, Gas mark 3. Place the dried fruit, bicarbonate of soda and tea in a bowl and leave to soak for around 2 hrs. Place the grated apple, sieved flour and sugar into a bowl and mix together. Add the melted butter, vanilla essence and fruit…
THE ANGEL HOTEL, ABERGAVENNY, MONMOUTHSHIRE. TEL NO 01873 857121 The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny, www.angelhotelabergavenny.com has been chosen as one of the best places in the UK to enjoy afternoon tea. The former Georgian Coaching Inn has won The Tea Guilds, ‘Top City and Country Hotel Tea Award 2011’. Only nine Hotels outside of London have achieved this top national award. It has been praised for its smart and elegant surroundings, attentive and efficient service and tasty sandwiches, cakes and scones.
With the Royal Wedding only a few weeks away there are a number of venues cashing in on the latest ‘afternoon tea’ craze. The Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn Street, London has a ‘Royal Afternoon Tea’ costing £15, http://www.thecavendish-london.co.uk/afternoon-tea-london. Not only is the hotel an ideal base for those seeking the thrill of London’s theatreland, world class shopping and restaurants, it is an oasis of calm where guests can escape, relax and unwind when in London. Whether staying for business or pleasure the hotel’s 230 contemporary bedrooms provide guests with a warm, tranquil environment to escape to. The Cadogan Hotel, Sloane Street,…