Month: July 2011

Ingredients 175g/6oz Light Soft Brown Sugar 200g/7oz Self Raising Flour 300g/10oz (3 or 4 carrots) 100g/4oz Sultanas 4 Medium Eggs…

Instructions for an afternoon tea in the Victorian Era Serve rolled bread and butter, sandwiches made of ham paste, potted…

Next time you are in Llandudno pop inside The Victoria Centre which is opposite M&S and enjoy a traditional afternoon…

More than one thousand years ago in China during the days of the Tang Dynasty (AD618-906) tea producers started compressing…

Throughout August to celebrate National Afternoon Tea Week you can get 25% off some afternoon teas in London and the…

The Riverside Restaurant at the Craig-y-Dderwen Riverside Hotel serves afternoon tea with buttered bara birth, which is a loaf of…

Ingredients 125g/5oz Marmalade 150g/6oz Butter or Margarine 150g/6oz Light Brown Sugar 200g/7oz Self Raising Flour 3 eggs ½ tsp Baking…

In 1610 tea caught on in the West, The French East India Company established regular trade relations with the Far…

In 1101-1125, Chinese Emperor Hui Tsung became tea obsessed and wrote about the best tea-whisking methods and held tea tasting…

In Australia the ancient Chinese tea ceremony is being used to teach young women the finer points of dressing, deportment…

I bet you didn’t realise that some of your common herbs which are used to spice up cakes and other…

Spearmint Tea has been shown to ease the pain of arthritis. According to a leading newspaper, researchers are prescibing two…

My blog friend Janet has written a beautiful post on ‘Afternoon Tea’ with pictures and her talented artists paintings which…

One of my local tea shops has been given another Tea Guild Award of Excellence. The Ollerton Watermill Tea Shop…

In the 1940’s the United Kingdom was considered to have the highest tea consumption in the world. The country’s love…