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Date Posted: 09:07:08 07/01/11 Fri
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Tea time
In reply to: Edie 's message, "Re: Tea time" on 03:30:42 07/01/11 Fri

We have an enamel kettle that is kept purely for emergency use as our Rayburn is oil-fired and therefore the hob is only hot if we put it on to the cooking mode, but we do have the log-burner in the sitting room that we used when we had power cut a while back, and which I could uilise if need be to cook on, but the kettle doesn't have a whistle. The teabag or loose tea debate is one that misses me out altogether as I don't like tea, but the whole tea ritual is lovely. There were usually only 3 different types of biscuit in our house as a child, gingernuts, bourbons and custard creams, and although Mam did like "proper" tea out of a cup complete with saucer if she was using the teapot, she would otherwise drink teabag tea (and obviously coffee) out of a mug, albeit all her mugs were bone china as well. When they came to visit I always had to make sure that there was bonechina cup for her to drink out of, but seh would generally bring her own loose tea, blss her. I relish the thought of "proper" tea times and hope that with the grandchild on its way we will be able to have some proper teas with the babe, with sandwiches, and cakes. I must dig out my Welsh cake recipe as well and try and make them. I have a proper bakestone, but can't use it on my electric stove so will have to use the heaviest frying pan I have, which are tucked away somewhere safe, and use those, and when we get home from shopping I shall have to set the kitchen up anyway as it's coffee morning down the church tomorrow so I have some baking ahead of me, some buns to take down, having first put some aside for Sam and Liz, no real need to keep any for ourselves as David made a coffee cake yesterday for us. I made some little sultana buns earlier in the week and popped a couple round to Sam and sat awhile with him in his summer house watching the birds and he said that as the buns were still warm he would have one now. Anyway we were sat talking, and he looked down on to his lap at an empty piece of kitchen paper and 2 bun cases and said "well, I don't know where the other one went". I chuckled as he had sat and unwrapped it without thinking and just munched it up, bless him. A few more popped round there later won't go amiss. I have a fabulus recipe for peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips if anyone is interesed (my next batch will have pecan nuts just for a change, although only half of it will have those and the other half will have the chocolate as we have neighbours whose teeth can't cope with crunchy nuts). When Rachel came to stay a few weekends ago she went back home laden with home made goodies, ie a coffee cake and some peanut butter cookies, and her man, who is actually a chef, asked her to get the recipe for him as he enjoyed them so much. Mind, she was helping herself to them almost as soon as I was taking them out of the oven. Kids don't change do they? No matter how old they might get!

Gilly

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Replies:

Re: Tea time -- Ani, 12:22:13 07/01/11 Fri
- Re: Tea time -- Norrie, 20:14:14 07/01/11 Fri
- Re: Tea time -- Edie, 03:42:51 07/02/11 Sat
  - Re: Tea time -- Jack, 22:59:50 07/02/11 Sat
Re: Tea time -- Norrie, 20:19:34 07/01/11 Fri
- Re: Tea time -- Gilly, 15:38:37 07/02/11 Sat