Tea Cookbook

Recipes, History, and Etiquette from Conner Prairie Museum

This unique tea cookbook contains old-fashioned recipes for tea sandwiches, scones, and teacakes, along with information on tea party etiquette.

There is a wonderful history of tea in America, how a formal tea party was hosted in early American times, photos and descriptions of early tea sets, instructions on how to set your table for a tea party, explanations of the different types of tea, instructions on how to brew a perfect pot of tea, and tea etiquette.

The recipes in this book are meant to complement a tea party and contain authentic early American recipes including tea sandwiches, scones and biscuits, tarts and pastries, and cakes.

This book also includes a handy baking and cooking chart on the back page for weights, measurements, and substitutions.

Notes are provided from Conner Prairie Museum and give a historical perspective on some of these early American celebrations. This book has a nice amount of history regarding early American celebrations for the history buff as well. To learn more, visit the Conner Prairie Museum website.

Here are a few of the recipe titles from this tea cookbook.

Tea Sandwiches and Savories:

Cheese Sandwiches
Welsh Rarebit
Cucumber Sandwiches
Chicken Salad
Scones, Biscuits, and Teacakes:

Benton Teacakes
Lemon Cookies
Gingerbread
Naples Biscuits (ladyfingers)
Tea Biscuits
Scotch Scones
Scotch Cakes
Tea Cakes

Tarts and Pastries:

Fruit Turnovers
Peach Tarts
Orange Tartlets
Lemon Cheesecakes
Puff-Paste Pastry

Cakes:

Berwick Sponge Cake
Chocolate Cake
Lemon Cake with Lemon Icing
Martha Scott's Orange Tea Cakes
Victoria Sandwich
Republican Cake
Savoy Cake
Washington Pound Cake

Sweetmeats, Curds, and Creams:

Lemon Curd
Lemon Cream
Orange and Lemon Sweetmeats
Popovers
Pecan Popovers
Cinnamon Honey Butter

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• This 32-page softcover paperback cookbook measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2".

• All recipes in these cookbooks are in US equivalents (cups, pounds, ounces).

• Take your pick and order a few different titles. They are a nice item to have on hand when you need a last minute shower or wedding gift.

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