Christmas Teatime: Celebrating the Holiday with Afternoon Tea

by Lorna Ables Reeves (Editor)

Overview

For tea devotees, there is no better way to mark the holiday season than with festive tea parties.

This collection of ten beautiful, yet varied, table settings, accompanied by more than 70 delectable recipes for scones, savories, and sweets, will inspire anyone who is planning a Christmastime celebration. Tea pairings, along with a tea-steeping guide, make it simple to select and perfectly prepare a pot of tea to serve along with the array of tempting treats in this 136-page book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940772646
Publisher:	Hoffman Media
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Series:	TeaTime
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	1,054,243
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Lorna Reeves was introduced to the pleasures of tea at the venerable Williamsburg Inn. She was immediately smitten, and it wasn’t long before tea drinking became an essential part her daily routine. Editor of TeaTime magazine, which received the award for Best Tea Publication at the 2014 and 2015 World Tea Awards, Lorna has been a panelist and a panel moderator at World Tea Expo and speaks at tea festivals throughout the United States and Canada. She is currently pursuing Specialty Tea Institute Level 3 certification and lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Menus

The Magic of Christmas 9

An Afternoon at the Nutcracker 21

A Very Holly Jolly Teatime 33

Christmas Splendor 45

Old-World Christmas 57

A Season of Giving 69

'Twas the Night before Christmas 81

Yuletide Celebration 91

A Tea of Good Tidings 103

Teatime around the Tannenbaum 113

Useful Resources

Tea-Steeping Guide 126

How-Tos 128

Acknowledgments 132

Recipe Index 134