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high tea and bunny melt
Yesterday afternoon we joined friends for their traditional high tea and bunny melt. The half-price bunnies, perhaps knowing their fate, had fled the stores this year by the time Pesach ended, but others had had better hunting. In the end this turned out not to matter anyway because after the "high tea" part we were all too full for fondue.
Ralph and Lori had acquired burnt almond torte mini-cakes from Prantl's. This is one of my my favorite cakes (if not my favorite), so that was a pleasant surprise. (I hadn't known they did single-serving cakes.) Lori had baked some wonderful scones, and there were other items too (including some nicely-spiced devilled eggs).
There were also some interesting candies. There was the white chocolate with miniature jellybeans embedded; you might not think that would work, but it does. (I think the jellybeans were mostly of the spiced varieties.) And then there were the miniature bunnies; the dark-chocolate ones had a red filling (raspberry?), which led to some curiosity about what was inside the orange ones. It was a light-colored cream filling, declared by another guest to be "white meat". Funny, it didn't taste like chicken.
We hadn't had time to prepare a food contribution. We considered bringing tea but didn't. That turned out to be for the best; there was quite a large quantity there already and it looked like our hosts would not have welcomed more.
This was fun. I should really get my act together to host gatherings; high tea need not be only on the Sunday after Easter, after all. :-)
Ralph and Lori had acquired burnt almond torte mini-cakes from Prantl's. This is one of my my favorite cakes (if not my favorite), so that was a pleasant surprise. (I hadn't known they did single-serving cakes.) Lori had baked some wonderful scones, and there were other items too (including some nicely-spiced devilled eggs).
There were also some interesting candies. There was the white chocolate with miniature jellybeans embedded; you might not think that would work, but it does. (I think the jellybeans were mostly of the spiced varieties.) And then there were the miniature bunnies; the dark-chocolate ones had a red filling (raspberry?), which led to some curiosity about what was inside the orange ones. It was a light-colored cream filling, declared by another guest to be "white meat". Funny, it didn't taste like chicken.
We hadn't had time to prepare a food contribution. We considered bringing tea but didn't. That turned out to be for the best; there was quite a large quantity there already and it looked like our hosts would not have welcomed more.
This was fun. I should really get my act together to host gatherings; high tea need not be only on the Sunday after Easter, after all. :-)
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-- Dagonell
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I agree that high tea could well be on other days, but I often find that if we don't have a tradition nudging us to a party on a particular date, we don't manage to get our hosting act together.
We do need to have an out-of-tradition party this summer with a theme of "what we learned at the New Orleans School of Cooking". Making that happen will be something of a challenge.
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