To celebrate the launch of their new Japanese afternoon tea menus, the Miyako restaurant in the Andaz Hotel in London, are offering 20% discount until 31st May, 2011. This is certainly an afternoon tea taste like no other as you can see from the menu below, but well worth a visit while the offer is on to sample these delights. The afternoon tea is served Monday – Friday from 3 – 5pm. One of the menu’s is: Sweet white peach bean pasta wrapped with soft rice cake Japanese style vanilla creamed filled cookie Chestnuts and sweet red beans pasta wrapped…
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The BBC Good Food Show at the NEC in Birmingham is on 15-19th June, which is only a month away so it’s time to get your tickets now. This is one food show that I try not to miss as it has so much to offer for any type of food lover. With a summer kitchen, master chef experiences, Saturday kitchen live, grow your own, BBC gardener’s world live, producer’s village, food lover’s area and lots more. The only thing you need to do is to make sure you get there early so that you can see it all. Oh!,…
The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny, Gwent won this years Hotel Tea Award by The Tea Guild,for their afternoon tea which they said ‘surpassed all expectations’, giving the tea room a near perfect score. The Hotel will also be hosting a preview of the latest collection by top milliner Alison Tod, whose hats were recently worn by guests at the royal wedding. The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny will show the collection – which will have its official debut at Royal Ascot later this summer – as part of a Vintage Tea Afternoon on May 14 and 15. The latest designs by…
‘Time for Tea’ with Mary Engelbreit is a lovely colourful book with lots of beautiful colour illustrations. She writes, ‘there is no companion so companionable as Solitude (Thoreau)’ which is how she thinks tea is represented to her. She talks on loads of different types of tea and her love of it.
They say this is the kind of tea served in English nurseries for centuries. It was simply a very milky tea with sugar to taste. The name comes from the French ‘ the de Cambrai’, named for tea whose colour, with milk added is like the white Cambric linen fabric which originated in the city of Cambrai in France, and was used to make lightweight garments. It was believed that the French were the first to develop cambric tea, most likely as an alternative to the strong teas generally reserved for healthy adults. The French use heavy cream and one…
Take some more tea the March Hare said to Alice very earnestly ‘I’ve had nothing yet’, Alice replied in an offended tone’ ‘so I can’t take more’. Lewis Caroll – Alice in Wonderland
For the month of May, Yorkshire Tea are saving the rainforest with tea cosies Their mission is to save an area of rainforest the size of Yorkshire. Tea cosies are being put up for auction on ebay every day. They aren’t your normal run of the mill type of tea cosy though. Each one is the hard work of those ladies at the Women’s Institiute. You can find out more details from their website www.yorkshiretea.co.uk or on their facebook page.
It seems that everyone is joining in the latest craze for an afternoon tea on their menus, even pubs. The Slug and Lettuce Pubs have an ‘Afternoon Tea’ offer from 22nd April until 2nd May where it says you can ‘Cuppa Tea Your Majesty’? with a tea and scone swerved with clotted cream and strawberry jam.
Ingredients 200g/7oz pack of fresh dessert shortcrust pastry 12 tbsp raspberry jam 1 medium egg white 50g/ 1.75oz caster sugar Method Preheat oven to 200C/180/Gas G Roll out the pastry to around 3mm thickness and use a 9cm (3.5”) cutter to cut 12 rounds Put these in the base of a 12 hole mini muffin tin and prick with a fork Line with baking parchment and baking beans and bake blind for 10 – 12 minutes or until the pastry begins to brown Allow to cool then fill each one with a tablespoon of jam but don’t overfill as this…
Drinking three cups of tea a day can help ward off heart disease and stroke according to an Australian study which found that drinking either ordinary tea or green tea can reduce the risk of heart disease by 11%. This is thought to be due to the high levels of flavonoids in tea, which increase the production of nitric oxide gas in the blood. This compound widens blood vessels and reduces blood pressure. One good thing is that adding milk to your tea does not reduce the health benefits.
Their story started in 1706. Back then, the most popular drinks in England were coffee, gin and ale – even at breakfast! Although tea had been drunk in China for thousands of years, it had only just been imported to England, and lots of people were suspicious of it. One man who was sure that it would be big was a certain Thomas Twining. Having had enough of drinking ale in the morning, he started selling tea from his coffee house on LondonÂ’s Strand, promising only to sell the finest qualities and varieties. His pledge soon won him (and his…
EASY CHOCOLATE, DATE AND ALMOND FLOURLESS TORTE… Ingredients 250g/9oz whole almonds (unpeeled) 250g/9oz dates (pitted and chopped) 250g/9oz dark chocolate 6 Egg Whites Half a cup of castor sugar Icing sugar for dusting Method Preheat oven to 180C, 350F or Gas 4 Line or grease loaf or cake tin Place almonds and chocolate into a blender and chop lightly into chunks Beat egg whites until they form still peaks and gradually add the castor sugar Fold in the almonds, dates and chocolate Pour into tin Bake for 45 minutes or until cooked Cool then turn out onto wired rack When…
‘But 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat – these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.’ Roald Dahl, British writer
Dinner, during the 18th century, was served between 7pm and 8.30pm and an extra meal called ‘luncheon’ was created to fill the midday gap. But as this meal was very light, people were left feeling hungry. Legend has it that it was Anna Maria, the 7th Duchess of Bedford of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire who stumbled upon the idea of afternoon tea. Apparently she would ask her main to bring all the tea making equipment to her private boudoir at around 5pm so that she could enjoy a cup of tea with a slice or two of bread and butter.…