A very British tea party abroad....

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Hosting a fundraiser and doing a British Tea Party, making scones and cake and finger sandwiches and putting up bunting and finding cath kidston fake material and doing pimms and g&t and elderflower cordial and tea for the —losers— Jon drinkers. We’re in the US so what else should we do to make it “quintessentially” british (as in a bit twee but realistic....not fucking downtown abbeyesque....we did toy with white lightning and fish finger sandwiches but we need them to donate cash for the school!)

I got loads of mismatched tea cups and saucers from the charity shops.
You can either use them for the tea or you can flog them as candles (very easy to do) or pot up plants in them.

Victoria sponge.

No to white lightning and fish finger sandwiches. Mini quiches perhaps? Macaron?

sausage rolls
vol au vents
sausages on sticks
cheese and pineapple on sticks
fondant fancies
shortbread
union flag tablecloths and two tiered plates

www.britishcornershop.co.uk/mr-kipling-french-fancies-8-pack?search=fondant%20&

This website delivers to the States - how much of a mark up you'd make on pre bought fancies and cherry bakewells not sure, you'd have to do your trolley, look at cost in dollars and delivery charge and work out whether it's worth your while

Small sandwiches with crust cut off salmon, cucumber etc. Jam tarts, small cup cakes.

Elton Mess is quite easy to do en masse and divide it into small pots to be sold.

My American family love shortbread which is quite quick to make/bake.

Great ideas esp. sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks, also thinking of marmite on hot buttered toast, just a few things that the Americans might not expect...

Love the idea of mismatching tea cups

You need a multi-storey cake park

Jam (labelled as jam)

The sort of savoury fancies you get at posh teas in hotels. Cheese straws. Earl Grey and lemon tea, plus builders

Mr Kipling fondant fancies if you can get them. And a Battenburg cake. And perhaps a Bakewell tart, and some Grantham Gingerbreads, Eccles cakes and Cheksea buns

Trifle
Mini Yorkshire puds with roast beef

Have you looked on the Ritz website they are experts at afternoon tea.

Victoria sponge

Maybe a pudding of some kind

Mini Yorkshire's done as canapés with a little roast beef or something?

If it's for fundraising don't get very expensive stuff ordered from the UK, stick with bits you can make at home

Cucumber sandwiches, no crusts

Definitely Victoria sponge with real whipped cream in the middle not butter cream, bleurgh!

Cherry bakewells are really easy to make, so I would recommend them too.

Sandwiches should be cream cheese and cucumber, very thinly sliced.

I don't know if you could get pork pies. Probably not and they're quite tricky to make, but you could give it a go?

Definitely sausage rolls, they are unknown in the US and also fundamentally delicious.

Sausage rolls
Cream cheeses and cucumber sandwiches
Bridge rolls with egg and cress
Cheese and marmite straws
Scones with jam and cream
Victoria sponge or battenburg
Shortbread
Strawberries and cream

Things that actually feature in afternoon tea. Who has canapés which are themselves a mash up of a roast dinner with cups of tea?

One of these to stand in the entrance way to welcome people.

I second the mismatched tea sets - goodwill should have some although depending on how many you need, you may need to visit several stores.

Ditto to proper teapots and cake stands.

As for food - savoury:
Sandwiches
Mini pies
Sausage rolls (you’ll have to make these yourself)

Sweet:
scones
Vic sponge
Carrot cake
Mini trifle (buy mini dessert cups to make these in)
Some kind of sweet pastry - mini eclairs, or Millefeuille, or custard slice

afternoon tea recipes

Claim the state for Queen Elizabeth? its for the best.

Nobody actually has cucumber sandwiches. Get some curry on please

tiffin in fact.

I bet americans would like a proper bacon buttie

Nobody actually has cucumber sandwiches. Get some curry on please

Coronation chicken is the best of both worlds.

Mini spotted dick & custards.
Mini portions of fish & chips.

Goat and marmite and sausage rolls are NOTi afternoon tea!

Sandwiches
Mini bridge rolls
Pastry straws

Mini vic sponge
Any mini cake, fancy or pastry
Possibly scones with jam and clotted cream

Glass of fizz
Tea
Elderflower spritz

Samosas! Every Christmas party I ever had at primary school had samosas. Super cheap to make and I always take them to that sort of thing overseas. To be fair though, they do tend to be greeted with 'oh, my British sister in law always has these" followed by deep suspicion...

Otherwise, traffic light jelly in clear plastic cups so you can see the stripes with a scoop of ice cream on top. You could do an adult version with vodka too.

Yeah coronation chicken and chicken tikka sarnies with some proper cider. I need to stop now my tomachs going mad.