Tea Party Menu

Here is the full menu. Hope it inspires ideas for others who are putting together a party. If anyone wants any recipes, just let me know.

Prelude

Blood orange mimosa

Green tea lemonade

Delicious Baltimore tap water (filtered of course)

Vegetable crudite with red caviar dip

First course: Savory sandwiches and salad

Green teas: Arcadian Apple, Peach

Dijon chicken salad on butter croissant

Salmon with roasted red pepper and cilantro butter

Tomato-cucumber with feta butter

Spinach-artichoke with herb butter

Rose petal

Cherry-melon mint salad

Second course: Breads

Black teas: Ceylon Silver, Asia

Traditional cream scones

Apricot-vanilla scones

Cherry-vanilla scones

Cheddar-cilantro scones

Banana bread

Scones served with the following:

Double Devonshire cream

Clotted cream

Lisa’s own faux Devonshire cream

Strawberry preserves

Fresh lemon curd

Sweet unsalted butter

Third course: Sweets and pastries

Herbal tea: Lemon verbena

Butter pound cake petit fours with royal icing and buttercream garnish

Traditional colonial queen tea cakes with creamy sugar glaze

Lemon bars

Southern pecan pralines

Russia tea cakes

Fourth course

Dark chocolate mousse with vanilla whipped cream

Tea embellishments: Milk, Orange blossom honey, Citrus scented sugar, Sugar cubes