Sunday, 5 June 2022

Afternoon tea - Platinum Jubilee Weekend

 Sandwiches:

- Salmon, Cucumber, cream cheese in white bread
- Egg and cress mayonnaise in wholemeal bread
- Humous, avocado, tomato and rocket in multigrain bread

Coronation chicken / Coronation chickpea in little gem lettuce leaves
- the sauce: 1tbsp mango chutney, 3tbsp  mayonnaise, 1tbsp crème fraiche (replace with an extra tbsp of mayo if you don’t happen to have an open pot), 1tsp medium curry powder
- I added chopped blanched french beans in the chickpea variant and sultanas in each.

Pineapple and cheese on cocktail sticks.

Cheese straws made from pre rolled puff pastry with cheddar and sprinkling of cayenne rolled in centre and extra cheese on top. Needed a sprinkling of salt.

Lemon shortbread: https://www.theenglishkitchen.co/2020/10/marys-perfect-shortbread.html adding lemon zest to go with lemon posset, and to replace the shortbread recipe in


Peanut butter cups https://tasty.co/recipe/3-ingredient-peanut-butter-cups (Really must put into mini cupcake paper cases next time).

Scones with strawberry jam and clotted cream.