An Old Fashioned Tea Treat

It's Strawberry Time on the prairie

And I'm on my second flat

They are so good,

so sweet,

so red

And with these sweet local strawberries

I wonder why I ever buy the ones in the store!

Friday I used part of them to make a pie

A fresh strawberry pie

The recipe I've had before my marriage

It was always served at lunch counters and tea rooms and cafeterias

at strawberry time . . . and only at strawberry time

I make at least one a year

With our local berries.

Friday, we were meeting friends for dinner

And then they were coming back to Linderhof

for dessert and coffee,

hence the pie.

And Friday afternoon, when I took my tea

In the breakfast room

(Sometimes I indulge myself with a Spode teapot

instead of the crockery one)

tea for me!

And the tea treat

Pie Crust

I'm sure it has a fancier name but that's what we called it.

The little scrapes leftover from a pie,

buttered, sugared and cinnamoned

And baked along with the pie.

As a child, I think I liked the "pie crust" better than the 

dinner pie!

And it was as good as I remembered

With a pot of Earl Grey,

the warm cinnamon sugary buttery pie crust was perfect!

And I didn't even tell Husband Jim that it was tea time

I didn't share!

And after dinner at our favorite local restaurant, Crooners,

we came back to Linderhof

for coffee

and slices of that strawberry pie

topped with a big blob of whipped cream

and a perfect strawberry!

It's Tuesday and I'm sharing with:

Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Time Tuesday

Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday