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osprey_archer) wrote2014-02-04 12:10 am
osprey_archer) wrote2014-02-04 12:10 am
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Anne of Green Gables Tea
I have had the most delightful idea for a tea party. Or, rather, I have stumbled upon someone else’s splendid idea for a tea party: an Anne of Green Gables tea.
I inherited the same edition of the book as one in the photo, so of course I have to have a tea party! Sometime in the spring, when we can have a center piece with great white flowers: flowering branches would be best, if we can get them, but we could make do with peonies. Or perhaps we ought to acquire geranium, and call it Bonny for the occasion? Oh, and we should all wear hats wreathed in wildflowers!
And there’s such an abundance of food mentioned in Anne of Green Gables!On Anne’s first night with the Cuthberts, she eats bread and butter and crabapple preserve out of a scalloped glass dish: I have a tiny glass tart pan that will serve, and I can use it to make raspberry tarts before. She loves chocolates and chocolate caramels, and she’s forever eating apples as she reads. And ice cream, just as Anne eats at the Sunday school picnic; and perhaps a plum pudding, with sauce (which we will carefully cover so no mice fall in)! Though plum pudding might not be quite the thing for spring...
And of course we must have raspberry cordial to drink. Proper raspberry cordial or currant wine: either would be fine. So many possibilities. The only thing we will definitely not be having is liniment cake.
It will be splendid! Something to look forward to through the dreary dark of February.
I inherited the same edition of the book as one in the photo, so of course I have to have a tea party! Sometime in the spring, when we can have a center piece with great white flowers: flowering branches would be best, if we can get them, but we could make do with peonies. Or perhaps we ought to acquire geranium, and call it Bonny for the occasion? Oh, and we should all wear hats wreathed in wildflowers!
And there’s such an abundance of food mentioned in Anne of Green Gables!On Anne’s first night with the Cuthberts, she eats bread and butter and crabapple preserve out of a scalloped glass dish: I have a tiny glass tart pan that will serve, and I can use it to make raspberry tarts before. She loves chocolates and chocolate caramels, and she’s forever eating apples as she reads. And ice cream, just as Anne eats at the Sunday school picnic; and perhaps a plum pudding, with sauce (which we will carefully cover so no mice fall in)! Though plum pudding might not be quite the thing for spring...
And of course we must have raspberry cordial to drink. Proper raspberry cordial or currant wine: either would be fine. So many possibilities. The only thing we will definitely not be having is liniment cake.
It will be splendid! Something to look forward to through the dreary dark of February.
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It will be very important to dress properly at a tea like this one. Your clothes ought to have scope for imagination. Puff sleeves recommended.
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