On Thursday afternoons I am trying to have a special afternoon tea for the boys. Growing up every Thursday meant going to grandmas house and having afternoon tea with her and Pa. The spread was something to behold. Cakes, biscuits, cheese, slice, sometimes in summer - grapes. There was usually iced cakes and a fruit kind of cake, crackers and plain biscuits cream biscuits chocolate biscuits and a slice. My grandma was a great baker and most Saturday mornings should be be in the kitchen baking up a storm for the week. You could arrive to find any number of cakes in the throes of being made, cooling on the rack or already iced and in their Tupperware.
I don't cook like that mainly cause I would eat it all, seriously I would have no self control - maybe grandma didn't either ending up with type 2 diabetes. But I did find a sweet finger bun with pink icing on Thursday that seems very appropriate. Grandma sometimes bought these even with all those cakes already on the table. Mostly she bought the fruit kind with white icing and cinnamon on the top, this pink one was very good. I told the boys stories about my grandma while we ate.
And we played chess, well sebastian moved he pieces in moves he had learned at chess club the day before, I watched.
- I wrote this somewhere
Ooh I might steal this idea. Love the memories from grandmas spread, though I would also not be able to keep up to grandmas standard. Once something is baked I have horrible self control! Maybe each week could be a different cake, apricot loaf, date loaf, chocolate fudge cake. We already eat ritz biscuits, which mum told me grandma started buying because you could eat them.
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