{"id":6870,"date":"2013-12-02T19:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2014-02-15T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T08:25:12","slug":"its-high-tea-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"It’s High Tea Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had long dreamed of having High Tea at a special place like New York Hudson Valley’s The Equus<\/a>, so when Valentine’s Day had rolled around (this was a few years back) and I learned that my husband was bringing us there for afternoon tea, I was none-other-than ecstatic!\u00a0 The following is most likely what we had ordered…\u00a0 mind you it has been some time…\u00a0 a nice assortment of lovely teas and delicious little tea cakes, scones (served warm and frosted in powdered sugar with the choice of clotted cream & fruit preserves), and toasted curry chicken sandwiches.\u00a0 Sounds good doesn’t it?\u00a0 Every tea lover should try this once in their life…\u00a0 even if it’s simply planning a quaint little tea party at home and extending an invitation to a few good friends- this would be a darling thing to do, by the way, so don’t just write it off.<\/p>\n

Our recent Cape May excursion allowed for another similar treat of afternoon tea at the Carriage House Cafe & Tea Room<\/a> located on the grounds of the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate.\u00a0 I ordered egg salad with chives on swirled rye and shared the assorted scones & tea breads accompanied with clotted cream with my husband.\u00a0 My tea of choice was Harney & Sons’ Vervaine Lemon Verbena (I highly recommend).\u00a0 It was a perfect sunny, gently breezy day and I was so happy to be there; just the night before we took a trolley ride around the Emlen Physick Estate on the Ghosts of Cape May Trolley Tours<\/a>, which I also highly recommend!..\u00a0 Think darkened magical streets and flickering gas lamps… let your imagination run wild ;)!\u00a0 As an aside, for our next Cape May visit, this sounds great too -> The Walking Ghost Tour<\/a>.
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P.S. Cucumber or watercress sandwiches with cream cheese are among my favorite tea-time helpings.\u00a0 Searching for great menu ideas? \u00a0 I recently found a wealth of info at Linda A. Thompson’s Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

*Photocredit:<\/strong> The Equus, New York and Carriage House Cafe & Tearoom, New Jersey<\/p>\n

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