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Having Tea: Recipes & Table Settings | 
| Authors: Tricia Foley, Catherine Calvert
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $22.50
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 114897
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0517560070
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.53
EAN: 9780517560075
ASIN: 0517560070
Publication Date: December 13, 1987
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Condition: torn dust cover
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Product Description
What could be cozier on a blustery winter's day than a mug of tea by the fire with freshly baked Irish soda bread slathered with sweet butter and tangy orange marmalade? Or more invigorating on a crisp, cool afternoon in autumn than a picnic in the country with sharp English cheeses; crusty white peasant bread; vegetable, cheese, and apple tarts; and Thermoses of steaming warm tea? Or a better way to celebrate the ripe berries of summer than a dessert party tea in the garden with lemon-curd tartlets, raspberry shortcake, raspberry sorbet, sugar cookies, and tea served in flowered china cups?
A cookbook and style book, Having Tea includes a range of stunning locations with recipes, menus, table settings, and serving ideas for tea. There are formal and elegant teas that ring in the winter holidays with rich dark fruitcake, shortbread, brandy snaps, and sherried English trifle; a tea for one in the study with spicy ginger Bundt cake and a plate of cookies; and tea for two in a loft, with slow-scrambled eggs, cornmeal muffins and apple butter, and panfried tomatoes sprinkled with fresh tarragon. Each menu provides suggestions for the ideal tea to suit the meal.
Since the American style of tea drinking originated in England, Having Tea goes to the source to show two classic English tea rooms, tea at the Savoy Hotel in London, and a tea dance at London's Waldorf. In addition, there are special sections on the history and different varieties of teas, selections of teapots and tea services, and directions for brewing the perfect pot of tea. A final section, the "Tea Larder," offers ideas for tea trimmings from honey to mint or ginger, tea sandwiches, and a directory of mail-order sources for tea.
With approximately fifty recipes for tea sandwiches, crumpets, scones, cookies, and cakes as well as hearty tea-time meals, Having Tea will make you want to make having tea part of your day. It shows how, far more than a beverage, tea is a grand indulgence that provides food for the body and the soul.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Oh how I love tea! November 13, 2008
Kiwi Findlay-Shirras (UK)
Wow. This book is accurate and wonderful, leaving you with a warm feeling, like after a nice cup of tea.
 A nice book June 26, 2008
Carole L. Martin (Stroud, OK)
This is a nice book for tea party recipes. For anyone who likes to entertain, it can be a big help.
Beautiful and Colorful June 22, 2008
Maryl W. Ebrite (Glen Arm, Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful book with many color photos of a simple pleasure and relaxing ritual we should all make time for.
Browse this book by tea service style rather than by recipe April 28, 2008
Jessica Lux (Rosamond, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having Tea packs copious amounts of information into a thin, full-color hardcover volume. Author Tricia Foley provides an introductory education on the history and pleasures of tea as well as instructions on the art of tea tasting. The majority of the book consists of tea setting layouts, which range from a cozy tea for two to a proper English hotel tea. She includes several outdoor seasonal tea services for enjoying the beverage on the lawn, at a summer harvest picnic, or in the fall countryside. For each setting, the place setting and location are photographed, a specific tea strain is recommended, and up to a half dozen recipes for finger foods, salads, main courses, and dessert are provided.
Having Tea is more of a style book than a cookbook, although the recipes are fabulous. Readers will find themselves looking at a setting and then recipes; the book is not organized in the manner of a traditional cookbook. However, with a comprehensive index, recipes of interest can be located in a flash. Includes an appendix of mail-order tea suppliers.
Tea is for timely elegance in the afternoon (T.E.A) February 13, 2008
Judy K. Polhemus (LA)
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
"Having tea?"
"Yes, let's have tea."
"Ah, but which one?"
"Let's consult HAVING TEA and select one. Shall it be the Strawberry Cream Tea? the Sunday Afternoon tea?"
"How about the Fireside Tea for Two?"
"But we are two women..."
"So, the day is gray and dreary, the fire is cozy, the comforters warm. Maybe two women need this luxury normally granted to lovers."
"Keep going. What other teas are listed?"
"How about the English Hotel Tea?
"You mean like the one in London where we had a high tea? Or the one in Stratford-on-Avon in that lovely little hotel dining room?"
HAVING TEA is divided into chapters that group teas by: Pleasures of Tea, Tea Services, The Perfect Pot of Tea, Tea Tasting, and the Tea-Room Tradition. What is especially delightful is the coordination of tea services and dishware with the teas and location of the tea party.
Some wonderful examples: the Strawberry Cream Tea is set on a lovely spring afternoon on a veranda set with wicker furniture and white linens and traditional white porcelain cups and saucers with quaint Victorian roses. The menu includes scones: buttermilk, cream, and raisin, with strawberry jam, whipped cream, strawberries, and Queen Mary Tea.
Another: Fireside Tea for Two (or for one if you have a cat and a good book) includes these wonders--Irish Soda Bread, Wheatmeal Bread, Crumpets, Orange marmalade, Sweet Butter, and Assam Tea. I think we could call this a Good Irish Tea.
The chapter on tea tasting is fascinating. Do you know that fine teas are like fine wines and have distinctive aromas and flavors? Their "qualities reflect where they are grown: altitude, climate, soil" (51). Do you know that the moment hot water is added to the tea is called "the agony of the leaves" (52) Leading types of teas are described. One example is Lapsang Souchong: "souchong" refers to the large leaf size. The taste is "hearty, smoky, and rich in flavor" (53). Ah, like a single malt scotch!
When you reach the back of the book, you will find directions for fillings, breads, spreads. Try these tea sandwiches: Stilton cheese (to die for) crumbled over pear slices on oatmeal bread, avocado with sprouts and walnuts on whole wheat bread, asparagus spears with lemon mayonnaise on wheat bread, and cream cheese and chives on pumpernickel.
Beautiful photographs of beautiful settings, locations, lovely foods, exquisite china, flowers, candles--all elegance to sweep away the daily hobnobing of the world. I think I'll have that tea beside the fire now.
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