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Tea Party Recipes, Afternoon Tea Recipes, English Tea Recipes, High Tea Recipes, High Tea Party, Victorian Tea Receipes, English Recipes, High Tea Menu Ideas. Tea Etiquette In order for one not to spill the hot liquid onto oneself, the proper way to hold the vessel of a cup with no handle is to place one’s thumb at the six o'clock position and one’s index and middle fingers at the twelve o'clock position, while gently raising one’s pinkie up for balance.

Tea Party Recipes, Afternoon Tea Recipes, English Tea Recipes, High Tea Recipes, High Tea Party, Victorian Tea Receipes, English Recipes, High Tea Menu Ideas

Tea cups with a handle are held by placing one’s fingers to the front and back of the handle with one’s pinkie up again allows balance. Pinkie up does mean straight up in the air, but slightly tilted. It is not an affectation, but a graceful way to avoid spills. Never loop your fingers through the handle, nor grasp the vessel bowl with the palm of your hand. Do not stir your tea, with your tea spoon, in sweeping circular motions.

Milk is served with tea, not cream. When serving lemon with tea, lemon slices are preferable, not wedges. Chocolate Molten Cupcake with Powdered Sugar &Strawberries. Hogwarts Express Pumpkin Pasties. This recipe will give us one 9" crust.

Hogwarts Express Pumpkin Pasties

From that, we can use a 4" circle-shaped cookie cutter to get the necessary rounds to make the pasties. To get a flaky crust, the key is COLD. I refrigerate all of my ingredients, including the flour, salt, and sugar--especially the butter and water need to be COLD. It is also key to work quickly to keep your dough from warming. (I should mention that many of these pictures for the crust dough are reused from another of my instructables, Night Sky Blueberry Pie, as the ingredients and steps are all the same except doubled.

Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp. salt 1 Tbsp. granulated white sugar 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cold and cut into small pieces 1/8 - 1/4 cup ice water Combine flour, sugar and salt in a food processor (or bowl, if that is what you have to work with). Shape the dough into a flattened disc, wrap into plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Apple Pie Bites on a Stick. The Simple Delights. Even though I have had some rough egg experiences lately…the century egg, and little birdie fetus…I have not given up on one of my favorite foods.

The Simple Delights

While eggs can be made to taste more disgusting than I ever thought possible, they can also be creamy, protein packed perfection and in the case of the baked egg cup, they are just that! The other morning, we had our friend Zach and one of his friends over for breakfast. Zach was our travel partner in Cambodia, and he is moving to South Africa on Monday, so we are trying to soak up as much Zach time as possible!

Gavin made some delicious whole wheat banana’s foster pancakes (I think I should enlist him has a guest blogger to share his pancake secrets!) And I made baked eggs in ham cups. Baked Egg Cups 12 Eggs 12 thin slices of deli ham (round) 1/2 Cup of your favorite cheese (I used Parmesan) 1/2 Cup diced scallions Fresh cracked Sea Salt and Pepper Preheat the oven to 400. Hey, like this post? Tags: Breakfast, eggs, healthy. Two Ingredient Ice Cream - No 'Ice Cream Machine' Required.