If you want to do your own Anne of Green Gables Tea event, you could check out the Anne Cookbook and the Anne Treasury from the library, full of wonderful ideas and recipes.
Our menu included:
1. Raspberry Cordial
2. Pear Scones with Plum and Peach Jelly
and since it was Fall, I made
Honey/Maple Butter
3. Chicken Cresents
Orange Cream Cheese on Pumpkin Bread
Cucumber on Dill/"Carrot" Bread
4. Mrs. Irvings Shortbread
Fruitcake
Gingersnaps
Jellied Tart Cookies
5. Plum Pudding
(as the girls served this, they set a little felt mouse on each table:)
That was alot of food, but my teas are always five courses,
so that is what I do.
Our very own Anne.........
At the beginning of tea, she wandered through the room reading "The Lady of Chalot", as her sister played the piano.......very nice
Her eldest sister graced us with readings from the book.......
Tables and such before ladies arrived......
The little brown booklet by each plate is the menu with "Anne" quotes for each food item, as well as a collection of "Household Tips" from the Treasury book which were quite entertaining.
Anne again.......how cute is she!!!!
Our little tea guests......
I cannot believe my head is already spinning for the next tea....A Nutcracker Tea
Our Anne girl and her sister are doing a ballet number and our menu goes along with each scene in the Nutcracker Ballet. Stahlbaum's Christmas Party, Nutcracker Battles the Mouse King, Land of Snow, Land of Sweets and Back Home Again. Five courses, I am having soooo much fun, I will share it with you as I go.
Must go, lot's of work to do, we are also
making more lovelies to sell at the tea:)
