How to Serve High Tea at Home
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The most important element of a high tea is, of course, the tea itself. With many varieties of tea, you can offer anything from Orange Pekoe to something along the lines of "Fruity Enlightenment Wafting Plum Mint Medley." When serving tea, it is always best to offer as many different types as you can get your hands on, and let your guest(s) choose. If everyone agrees that a particular one will be delightful, then stick that in your Brown Betty. If not, give each guest his or her own, and let the teapot keep the water.
Tea comes in two forms. Loose tea can be purchased in bags like ground coffee, and looks like fine or lumpy tobacco. Tea balls or teabags are the familiar packets of thin, white paper surrounding a cup's worth of tea.
If you go for the loose tea, and your guests do differ in taste, another important thing you'll need is a tea infuser for each guest. These are the small, steel or silver balls that have many holes and are on chains or at times look like a spoon with the encasement (tea infuser) at the end of the spoon handle. You pack the loose tea in an infuser, close it and place it in the teacup for the steeping.
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Sarah..this is for you and the girls. Will plan for my place..on a Sunday afternoon, though earlier than 4;00PM. Probably lunch time with food, snacks and card/board games.
