Afternoon Tea / Té de la tarde inglés

No recipe this week. I’ve been packing and cleaning because tomorrow I leave for London! As my last cooking adventure at home, I put together an afternoon tea* for my family (except my sister, because I planned badly and she’d already left for college). It was even going to have champagne, but the one ancient bottle we had was flat. Instead, we had moscato d’Asti, which I think I prefer, anyway; it basically tastes like soda!

*Afternoon tea is the fancy tea that people often (mistakenly) call “high tea.” It is actually LOW tea, so-called because it was traditionally served at low coffee tables with the people seated on couches. High tea is actually a heavy, filling, working-class meal, quite different from the fancy low tea. Read more here.

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Ninguna receta esta semana. He estado haciendo la maleta y limpiando porque ¡mañana voy a Londres! Mi última aventura de cocina en casa fue un té de la tarde inglés que hice para mis padres (y yo, claro). Además de té (o café en el caso de mi padre), teníamos sándwiches, pasteles, y bollos ingleses, y moscato d’Asti.

Et voilà! (I’ll post the recipes in the coming weeks. / Escribiré las recetas en las semanas que vienen)

 

Cucumber sandwiches, salmon and tomato sandwiches.

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Sandwiches de pepino, sándwiches de salmón y tomate.

 

 Caprese cups. We continue to deal with mountains of tomatoes and basil, and I had leftover wonton wrappers from some potstickers I made. Solution? Throw them all together! 

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 Bocados caprese. Seguimos cosechando montones de tomates y albahaca, y tenía pieles de wonton extras. ¿La solución? ¡Combinarlos! 

 Scones with blackberry or strawberry jam and unsweetened whipped cream (since it’s hard to get your hands on the traditional clotted cream stateside).

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 Bollos con confitura de zarzamoras o mermelada de fresa y nata montada sin azúcar (porque la nata cuajada tradicional es difícil encontrar en los EE.UU.)

Chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream frosting and mini lemon cupcakes with raspberry buttercream frosting. This is another version of the cake recipe I posted a few weeks ago. 

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 Pastel de chocolate con glaseado de frambuesa y pequeñas magdalenas de limón con glaseado de frambuesa. Esto es otra versión de la receta para pastel sobre que escribí hace unas semanas.