The Tea Trio's Weekly Tea

We named ourselves the Tea Trio,

Judy, Carol and I

It's an island of civilization in this sea of loneliness that COVID has created.

I've know Carol "forever" and she told me about her new friend Judy, whom I should meet

And I did -- social distancing on the front porch of Carol's 1919 home -- with masks!

We hit it off and did it again, only the second time Judy brought her latest tea book

I resisted buying it but upon seeing Judy's, I ordered one as did Carol

Carol always provided tea for us and Judy and I and sometimes Carol would provide a nosh

But in mid July it was Carol's birthday, she was fond of Victoria sponge and I was intrigued by the individual sponges found in the Downton Abbey book.

So Judy and I decided that I would bring the Victoria sponge from the book and she would bring something else from the book.

Carol set a lovely tea table for us

And we celebrated her birthday in style!

The Mini Victoria Sponge's -- fantastic

Judy chose the Scottish shortbread

The best homemade I've ever eaten!

And so a "tradition" was born . . . We all three had the cookbook.    We all three loved tea.    We would have a tea party every week and each one of us would bring a treat made from a recipe in The Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea book!

What fun!!!!

Week two:

I made the orange butter cake

That recipe was the one that intrigued me the most -- loved the slice of orange on the top

Judy made the Ginger Biscuits

Week Three:

Yorkshire Curd Tarts for me

Lemon Drizzle Cake for Judy

Prince of Wales Biscuits that Carol made

She even bought the stamps to make them look just like the ones in the book!

Week Three:

I made madeleines

Carol chose palmiers

And Judy the plum cake

Week Four:

After having watched Great British Bake Off Master Class and watching Paul make Chelsea buns more than once, I got brave, and decided to try something yeasty -- so I brought Chelsea buns

Judy brought the Apple Crumb Cake

And Carol made the perfect Bakewell tart

Not for our group, but for dessert on tea day --

 

The raspberry meringues from the book.    Only because I had two egg whites left from my Yorkshire Tarts and rather than tea size I made them dessert size and Husband Jim and I had them for dessert that night.

The Tea Trio loves the book.    It is fun to bake from the same book and before we left yesterday, we decided what we would bring -- Judy is doing the Ginger Butter Cake, I'm doing Banberry Tarts and Carol is doing the Butterfly Cakes.     We'll have another great tea time next week -- we Tea Trio Girls!