Tea for thirty-three
Yesterday we threw a little afternoon tea party for neighbours and friends.
We managed to squeeze 33 people in our little home (we couldn't use the garden as it poured with rain - although it stopped at some point allowing the very few smokers to go outside for a 'fag')
The lovely David and Ricardo (bazanges ) joined us for the week-end
Adrian (london1952 ) and I enjoyed all the baking.
I started on Friday night with a Linzer torte (hazelnut/cinnamon/cloves pastry case filled with raspberry jam and sprinkled with almond flakes
Then on Saturday I baked tea bread, and pistachio macaroons (sandwiched with pistachio butter cream) and I made some mini "Zuppa inglese" in cups (an entire bottle of rum went in 24 of these cups - one of our friends called them "The little cups of love!")
Adrian made a chocolate Guinness cake and a strawberry and chocolate ganache sponge cake
Adrian spent most of Sunday morning baking fruit scones, and cheese scones, and I assembled mini lemon curd and mandarin tartlets
Then Adrian made all the sandwiches
and arranged everything on the table
It was a lot of work but we enjoyed it. All our guests seemed to have a great time!
Richard (bazanges ) and Carlos
We drank lots of tea but a number (28) of bottles of sparkling wine were found empty a few hours later!
We managed to squeeze 33 people in our little home (we couldn't use the garden as it poured with rain - although it stopped at some point allowing the very few smokers to go outside for a 'fag')
The lovely David and Ricardo (bazanges ) joined us for the week-end
Adrian (london1952 ) and I enjoyed all the baking.
I started on Friday night with a Linzer torte (hazelnut/cinnamon/cloves pastry case filled with raspberry jam and sprinkled with almond flakes
Then on Saturday I baked tea bread, and pistachio macaroons (sandwiched with pistachio butter cream) and I made some mini "Zuppa inglese" in cups (an entire bottle of rum went in 24 of these cups - one of our friends called them "The little cups of love!")
Adrian made a chocolate Guinness cake and a strawberry and chocolate ganache sponge cake
Adrian spent most of Sunday morning baking fruit scones, and cheese scones, and I assembled mini lemon curd and mandarin tartlets
Then Adrian made all the sandwiches
and arranged everything on the table
It was a lot of work but we enjoyed it. All our guests seemed to have a great time!
Richard (bazanges ) and Carlos
We drank lots of tea but a number (28) of bottles of sparkling wine were found empty a few hours later!