Any ideas for a Miss Marple's Tea Room coffee morning?!
Any ideas for a Miss Marple's Tea Room coffee morning?
I am helping to organise a coffee morning for our local amateur dramatic society with the theme of 'Miss Marple's Tea Room', with the idea of having a very proper tea room set-up with doilies, petits fours type thing. Does anyone have any ideas as to presentation, recipes etc? There will be a limited budget and a very small foyer to put the event on in.
Answers:
How about copying an afternoon tea at The Ritz (look at their website) - cut the sandwiches small and take off the crusts, lots of cakes and pretty plates with doilies... You could offer lots of different teas too. Could you name cakes (or nicknames for the tea) after Miss Marple (or Agatha Christie) books, characters etc.? Good luck.
Are you gonna call it 'I could murder a cuppa' ??
You can't beat fruit cake, shortbread etc, and just keep the tea coming!!
Fantastic idea. How about Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off. Two kinds of tea and little bridge rolls filled with egg and cress. Sponge cake and scones.
There is an afternoon tea website that tells you all about etiquette. Someone must be able as well to get hold of an old-fashioned cake book. Orgainse each person to make something.
Yes! Cucumber sandwiches are a must, egg and cress, gentleman's relish, cheese, boiled ham. Cut into little triangles and cut the crusts off. Scones and jam with clotted cream, little iced fancies, (make the icing different colours) shorbread, chocolate cake and a Victoria sponge filled with raspberry jam and dedged in icing sugar, and loads of tea! If you can't find a proper cake stand, just use normal plates but with pretty doilies on them tea in china cups, and offer lemon slices as well as milk