Read about the first Roomie's Birthday Tea at The 19th Century Foodie
A quick menu:
Lemon Scones
Cheddar Garlic Scones
Salmon Corn Cakes
Crab Bake
Chicken Pie
Battenberg Cake
Hershey's Best Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting
A collection of Chocolate Confections from Halloween
The Special Chocolate Chip Cookies recently found
Assam Tea in Roomie's favorite pot, Brown Betty.
Today, at just after 7:00am, I began clearing the kitchen and preparing for what will be a long day.
First on the list was "Chinese Buffet Crab Bake". This ambrosial dish of imitation crab and cheddar cheese in a cream sauce is a favorite feature at buffet restaurants featuring Americanized Chinese food. There's nothing Chinese about it, but we love it. It will serve as one of the savories.
Of course, in any major cooking project, there will be the one item that sends the Foodie fleeing to the grocers in a panic. I discovered this early. One bag of shredded cheddar will not suffice for both the crab bake and the cheddar biscuits. Roomie's great husband agreed to do a grocery run so I could continue.
8:30am- The Crab Bake is in the oven and I begin the Battenburg Cake. I really need to do a post on the cake this year. Last year I was praying it would come together in some fashion. This year, practice makes ...well, "better", if not Perfection.
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| Crab Bake, combine and bake |
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| Battenberg Cake, ready to bake |
9:00am- I take a break to have some breakfast, allow Roomies to get their breakfast, and update you.
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| Salmon Corn Cake Mixture |
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| Making Marzipan Kitties |
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| Cooling Salmon Corn Cakes |
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| Cooling Chocolate Cake |
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| Scones, ready to bake |
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| Scones, being shaped and cut |
2:00pm- I take another break for an update, and wait until the cheese gets here.
I have assembled the Battenburg cake, made my famous salmon corn cakes, and made the chocolate peanut butter cake and scones.
The puff pastry is taking an age to thaw. I may need to search out how to speed up that process.
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| Peanut Butter Frosting |
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| Frosted Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake |
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| Puff Pastry for Chicken Pies |
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| Cream cheese sauce for Chicken Pies |
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| Chicken Pies, add the chicken |
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| Cheddar Garlic Scones |
Just before 4:00pm, the baking is complete, the table (and counter and improvised sideboard) is groaning with goodies, and we sit down at table for High Tea (from the dining table, so yes I am using the term correctly).
Here's the spread:
The Scones:
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| Lemon Scones |
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| Plain Scones |
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| Cheddar Garlic Scones |
The Savories:
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| Salmon Corn Cakes |
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| Crab Bake |
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| Chicken Pies |
The Confections:
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| Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting |
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| Battenberg Cake |
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