Scones- Afternoon tea

Well, I had to have any excuse to use my new teacup and saucer. 🙂

This is from the Spode Woodland range and was a treat to myself.

On a whim I made scones. I have never done so, and I did not have the lovely fluted scone cutters that make the iconic shape, but I used instead an egg ring.

I made plain; sultana scones and then added some fresh blueberries to some just because they were there.

Baby-G ate his plain. Husband-G ate his with butter and jam. I ate mine with butter and rhubarb jam. We did not have any cream but it did not matter.

This was the recipe I followed. It came out perfectly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tea_time_scones_77839

Lockdown Afternoon tea – Belgian chocolate choux buns

And prosecco. Well, it’s day eleventy billion of lockdown. Why not.

Afternoon tea – cucumber sandwiches.

A wonderful way to share my first ever home-grown cucumber, thanks to cucumber plants kindly given to me by ROD from ROD’s Island Life. https://rodsislandlife.wordpress.com/about/

These sandwiches are classically English. Fresh white bread, pure unsalted butter and thinly sliced cucumber. A tiny splash of salt.

Baby-Gusto pointed out that he hates sandwiches and so he had his just sliced with some cherry tomatos. I also added some crisps on the side as a it of a treat for him. This seems to be a peculiarly UK thing….sandwiches with crisps on the side. Very normal here but I had never come across it before. Even now after 12 years in the UK I cannot quite tolerate sandwiches and crisps eaten together.

This was a lovely and relaxed afternoon tea on a sunny Sunday. H-G had Lapsang Souchong tea and I had chamomile. We all just sat in quiet, largely silent, companionship for nearly an hour. H-G perused a gardening magazine; B-G examined the innards of a new board game and I started reading Middlemarch.

Utter bliss.