Vintage Tea Party - Hardcover

Caldicott, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711233276 ISBN 13: 9780711233270

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2012

Synopsis

Everyone loves an old-fashioned tea party. Mix-and-match crockery, bone-handled knives, lace and linen, teapots with cosies, sweet peas and roses, home baking and Victorian cocktails in tea cups - they're all back in vogue. Indoors by the fire in winter or outside in summer sunshine, hosts and guests can relax together with none of the stress or formality of a dinner party. Afternoon tea is the quintessential British tradition that has developed from its modest beginnings to become a much-loved celebration of indulgent pleasures. With evocative photographs and mouth-watering recipes, this stunning book shows how you can re-create a nostalgic world of classic comfort, elegance and delicious treats. Try Carolyn Caldicott's perfect cucumber sandwich, Victoria sponge cake, rose petal jelly, English muffins, crumpets, Earl Grey tea with gin and lemon, 'the best chocolate cake you will ever taste' and much, much more with this celebration of the quintessentially English tea time, a must-have recipe book for any vintage-lovers.  

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Review:

Captures all the comforting and elegant details of the classic tea party.

A delight to peruse, this sweet recipe book is a must for any vintage-lover's shelf.

With beautiful photographs and mouth-watering recipes, Vintage Tea Party shows how you can re-create a nostalgic world of classic comfort, elegance and delicious treats.

An enjoyable read, full of interesting ideas from table decoration to recipes.

A delightful secular Easter present in lieu of chocolate eggs or knitted chicks; but also the perfect present for your parish priest, to inspire them to reinvent that classic social occasion, the vicarage tea party... Let everything stop for tea again.

With beautiful photographs and mouth-watering recipes, Vintage Tea Party shows how you can re-create a nostalgic world of classic comfort, elegance and delicious treats.

A guide to the perfect tea time. Packed with historical info and beautifully illustrated.

Brimming with ideas and recipes for cakes, preserves and all those classic English tea-time treats that go down so well at a fete.

Pretty crockery and home baking are definitely back in fashion and this lovely little book is full of ideas for sumptuous teas throughout the year.

Celebrates that quintessetially English feast, and would be perfect for anyone planning a tea party, whether for a whole street at the Diamond Jubilee, or a few friends in the garden or round the fire.

Shows how you can recreate a nostalgic world of comfirt, elegance and delicious treats.

A delight to peruse, this sweet recipe book is a must for any vintage-lover's shelf.

Captures all the comforting and elegant details of the classic tea party.

About the Author:

For many years, Carolyn Caldicott and her husband Chris owned the World Food Café in London's Covent Garden, where they cooked and served delicious vegetarian food from recipes collected on their travels. They are the authors of three vegetarian cookery books published by Frances Lincoln. They now live in Winchester.

Chris Caldicott is a journalist and photographer. With his wife Carolyn, he owned and ran the World Food Café in London's Covent Garden. He and Carolyn are co-authors of three Frances Lincoln vegetarian cookery books and his photographs also appear in a wide range of newspapers and magazines. Since 1991 he has been an official photographer for the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in Winchester.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0711233276
• ISBN 13: 9780711233270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128