High Tea

[Goodwitch9]

When I was growing up we would visit my (Welsh) gran on a Sunday evening and have what she called a high tea at around 6pm. Not an afternoon tea with dainty sandwiches etc but a more robust affair, involving ham, boiled eggs, bread, radishes, pickles... I used to love it and would love to recreate it. What else could I serve?

Pork pie?

Oh yes! Sunday tea! You’d absolutely have to serve cold roast or boiled potatoes on a plate, leftover stuffing, and follow it with tinned fruit, jelly and evaporated milk. Best meal of the week!

Alpine eggs in individual ramekins
Cheese and ham toasties
Celery filled with cream cheese

Slices of chocolate fudge cake
Homemade shortbread

Cheese, sausage rolls, quiche.

Oh yes, there were always boiled potatoes!

Often fruit cake on offer too!

For us it was mam creating a meal around the leftover roast. So, cold chicken, boiled eggs, salad, bread and butter, cold pickles from the fridge. Usually followed by trifle, or maybe jelly and ice cream. If we were lucky, also tinned ham, the sort with the jelly around it 🤩
As a young child, I didn’t like half of it, but absolutely loved the meal itself 🤣

beetroot, coleslaw (by late 70s), salad cream (not vinaigrette). Also cups of tea and bread and butter.

my mum served this tea and sometimes she would cook chips as well - the hot chips and the cold ham and salad was fabulous.

A tin of John West salmon upended onto a plate.

Oh yes beetroot! And something called Russian salad in a tin.

Tomatoes that you’d dip into a little pile of salt on the edge of your plate. Celery sticks were consumed in the same way.