Last week seemed to fly by in a blur and I felt like I was running here there and everywhere, but basically doing nothing, so this week I want to make a concerted effort to stay home. I find the days seem longer when I come straight home from dropping Kristen off at school and don't go out again until 2pm to pick her up. Plus it will give me more time to catch up with blog visits and perhaps be able to blog more too.
As I mentioned last week I had book club at my house on Thursday evening. The book we read, which was The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, was set in Yorkshire England. We sometimes try to do food/snacks that go along with the book or the theme so I came up with the idea of having a 'Yorkshire tea party'. We didn't actually drink tea (we usually all like to have a glass of wine) but I got out my 'English' cook book and tried my hand at making my own scones and I made a little 'cake' that we call Maids of Honor(which were actually mentioned in the book). I'm happy to say both turned out very well, so much so that the ladies wanted me to email them the recipes ;-)
Here's a picture I managed to take of the scones. They were of course served with jam and fresh cream but I didn't manage to get a pic of one 'dressed' and ready to eat!
Here are the Maids of Honor (with Cadbury's chocolate fingers in the background).
They are made with a pastry bottom, filled with a little jam and then the topping is actually a cake mixture (you make your own, butter - sugar- flour- egg) that you spoon on top. Then you bake them for about 15 minutes.And this is the table nearly fully set, I hadn't yet put the sandwiches out and the empty plate you see was for the 'English' cheddar cheese and the Wensleydale with cranberries cheese, which was a huge hit with everyone. I made small dainty sandwiches filled with chicken salad, salmon/mayo and cream cheese and cucumber.
All in all a very fun evening and if I say so myself, delicious food. Wish you could have been there!
1 comment:
Oh how yummy your table looks, and your scones look so yummy too. Did you add sultanas (not sure what you call dried grapes...maybe raisons)? So your scone recipe obviously has eggs then. The recipe I always use doesn't, but I'm sure yours would be scrummy however you make them. Have you ever made pumpkin scones? They are really good also. Love your table cloth, it's so pretty. I have a white dinner set also and love it. My formal dinner set is white edged in gold and my every day one plain white so it goes with any event of table cloth. How nice you could add a touch of England to your bookclub meeting....that's awesome.
Leaving you warm hugs from sunny Sydney. xx
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