Christmas tea, oh Christmas tea...

[osprey_archer]

These many moons ago - well, one moon ago, really - I dreamily conceived a list of themed teas that I could inflict celebrate with my friends, and lo! one has come to pass: today we had a Christmas tea.

We rather cut back on the projected menu: four people can't eat gingerbread and a roast goose and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But we did have gingerbread and sugar cookies!







I enlisted my friends to help decorate the cookies. They're not as beautiful as asakiyume's painted cookies (I intend to make painted cookies someday. Does the food coloring just come in a container with a little spout so you can direct the flow?), but they nonetheless have a toothsome charm.

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[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

So you put the food coloring in little cups and paint from them? This begins to sound doable. Time to find cheap tiny paintbrushes!

I don't know if I'll be in the Northampton area soon, because I kind of had a falling out with the friend I was visiting there, but I expect my research will take me east-coastwards eventually. And then there will be TEA.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly: put the food coloring in teacups or eggcups or whatever, and use tiny tiny paintbrushes. Expensive ones are actually better because their fine tips don't splay out, but you can also get cheap ones and then trim them with scissors to make them just a few fibers thick.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

(And I'm sorry to hear about your falling out, though those things happen, but I do expect one day, someday, you'll be in this neck of the woods--and in the meantime, I will SEND you some.)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yay tea!