Christmas tea, oh Christmas tea...
Dec. 27th, 2012 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.

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
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Date: 2012-12-28 01:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-28 06:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-28 11:54 am (UTC)I can see that the goose might be a Goose Too Far. :-D
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Date: 2012-12-28 02:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-12-28 04:35 pm (UTC)Years ago, we did "painted cookies" with these special markers my mom got from a baker friend. Probably not as elegant as painting, but...
http://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Writer-Edible-Markers-AmeriColor/dp/B0020ZURDI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356712468&sr=8-1&keywords=cookie+markers
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Date: 2012-12-30 03:50 am (UTC)Your tea looks like it was *wonderful* (not to mention mouthwateringly delicious).
--If you come again to the Amherst-Northampton area, there's a place to buy tea I can take you. The people who run it travel all over the world buying tea... you know what? It occurs to me I can buy some and send it to you! (But it may be a while as I'm a lazy sort of person and Northampton is three towns away. But next time I'm over that way...)
But anyway--if you are ever out this way, I will take you there and you can choose from their tantalizing choices. Tea from Sikkim, Darjeeling, Nepal, Japan--all over!
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