We're taking afternoon tea at your place. I shall have...

[WildRosie]

• Darjeeling or good quality regular tea. Milk, no sugar.

• Cucumber and egg mayonnaise finger sandwiches.

• A plain scone with clotted cream and strawberry jam.

What will the rest of you have ?

Prosecco
A cheese scone (warm) with salted butter
A savoury tart
A sweet scone, with jam then cream
A small slice of cake (lemon or carrot)

Jambons sound a bit like a croque monsieur, or a feuilletée au jambon-fromage, if made with flaky pastry.
Love it but it's indigestion on a plate for me.

@Joystir59

Good coffee served with cream and Demerara sugar. Hummus and tomato on sour dough, coffee and walnut cake.

Do you reckon you could detect the demerara sugar in a blind taste test? Not being antagonistic- just genuinely curious if it’s possible as I reckon my tastebuds could only distinguish between coffee no sugar, coffee sugar, coffee lots of sugar!! I wouldn’t have a clue which kind of sugar.

Plain scone with cream and apricot jam, bacon bee and Chutney sarnies. Mini tart au citron, brownies. Builders tea. Twice.

You're coming to mine? You'll get what you're given!!

Earl grey and Welsh cakes

Kiwi club sandwich (ham, egg and mayo, tomato and lettuce), asparagus roll, salmon, cream cheese and capers sandwiches - on very thin bread, in dainty triangles and squares.

Little sausage roll, and blini with rare roast beef and horse radish.

Light as air scone, with strawberry jam and vanilla whipped cream. Victoria sponge with jam, cream and strawberries, and a brandy snap.

With a glass or two of veuve. . .

Barrys Tea

Could I have an entirely savoury afternoon tea?

A selection of sandwiches but no raw cheese.

A savoury mini tart.

A cheese and bacon scone

Maybe a bit of melon wrapped in parma ham.

So I've actually googled Jambons and apparently nobody knows who invented them, but Irish people ate 20 MILLION of them last year.

They're not only a deli counter staple but you can buy boxes of them in the chilled section in Tesco and Aldi.

Greggs are really missing a trick here.

The good news is that you can make them yourself, just Google it!

I do so love tea in a teacup!

Do you reckon you could detect the demerara sugar in a blind taste test? Not being antagonistic- just genuinely curious if it’s possible as I reckon my tastebuds could only distinguish between coffee no sugar, coffee sugar, coffee lots of sugar!! I wouldn’t have a clue which kind of sugar

Definitely. I don't even take sugar (I'm a black coffee, no sugar person), but the flavour of demarara is completely different to bog standard white cane - it's got a slightly bitter, rich and (logically enough) a treacle/molasses taste that makes it more complex compared to pure, toothaching sweetness. It's nearly as noticeable a difference as that between Saxa and Sea Salt flakes.

I like the champagne addition. I know the fancy hotels like Claridges and the Ritz used to charge a fair whack for afternoon tea with champagne. I'll be much more reasonable, provided you'll make do with Appletiser!

Greggs do a version of those jambon things don't they?

A bacon and cheese melt

I'm on a diet so I'll just have champagne please, lots of it 😀

Yes please to champagne instead of tea or coffee.

Finger sandwiches:

Coronation chicken
Egg mayonnaise
Cheese and chutney
Smoked salmon

Scones:

Fruit with clotted cream and lemon curd or apricot jam

Cakes:

Flapjack
Brownie with salted caramel
Banana cake with cream cheese icing
Almond slice

YUM

A chilled glass of champagne.
Cucumber sandwiches cut ever so thin.
Dainty mini scones, plain, with clotted cream and homemade bilberry jam.

Cheese muffins
Mini sausage rolls
Cucumber sandwiches

Victoria sponge with cream and strawberries
Millionaire shortbread

A lovely pot of Assam tea.

Earl grey tea in a lovely cup and saucer
Glass or two of chilled champagne (one is never enough!)
Smoked salmon & cream cheese granary finger sandwiches
Ham & cheese white finger sandwiches
Bite size leek, gruyere and mushroom quiche (plateful)

Salted crisps
Warm scone with Devonshire clotted cream and homemade strawberry jam
Homemade shortbread

Yum!

Well, this is very nice! 🥂🍾 🥂

I’ll have a cup of Twinings No 4 please.
Smoked salmon sandwiches
Cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches

Something warm & savoury, perhaps a delicate chicken vol au vent or a hearty slice of Welsh rarebit, or best of all Gentleman’s Relish on toast.

Fruit cake or coffee & walnut cake would be lovely.

Some chocolate flapjacks and big toffee choux buns would be rather good too. Equally suited to elevenses as afternoon tea.

Good quality Italian coffee.

Tiny finger sandwiches roast ham and tomato and coronation chicken.

Tiny cakes macaroons, strawberry tart, chocolate eclair, blackforest cake, cream slice.

Small slices of quiche lorraine and smoked smoked haddock quiche.

Small cream cream scone homemade strawberry jam, fresh cream and chopped fresh strawberries.

Prosecco.

Yorkshire Tea , tiny drop of milk, no sugar , white cup not China .
Egg and cress sandwich (no crust)
Tuna mayonnaise sandwich (no crust)
Scone with jam and cream
A Manchester Tart.

Smoked salmon sandwiches
Ham sandwiches (naice ham)
Plain scone, raspberry jam & clotted cream
Macroons
A chocolate cheesecake or tart

All mini

Serve with plain kettle chips and a glass of prosecco

Ooooo loads of earl grey!

Homemade, warm cheese scones with proper butter.

Then it has to be battenberg!

I hosted an afternoon tea last weekend. I made crustless cream cheeses and smoked salmon finger sandwiches.

Assam tea in a metal teapot (loved this at Luton Hoo)

At least 4 types of finger sandwich (salmon, egg, ham)

Pastries and cakes

Scones with cream and jam