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Afternoon Teas: Recipes, History, Menus (Between Friends Cookbook)

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This book contains 4 suggested menus, 7 pages of history and customs, and 5 pages of quotes about tea.

teas & beverages: 11 recipes / breads & spreads: 16 recipes / light servings: 13 recipes / sweets: 11 recipes

The recipes are easy, some as simple as "Marinate fresh mushrooms in Italian dressing" if you don't have time to make their marinade.

It's an attractive book with delicate watercolors on every page. If you only want one book of tea-type recipes, I prefer "The Book of Afternoon Tea" by Lesley Mackley or "Totally Teatime Cookbook" by Helene Siegel.

This is a great little book... It includes the history ofteas, the tea ceremony and all of the related customs.

All of thepages in the book are watercolors done by one of the three collaborators, almost each page is different and just beautiful to look at.

After looking at the pretty pages you are encouraged to plan your own special "TEA" event. Included are four suggested menus; Winter Holiday Tea, Summer Tea, Formal Tea and Informal Tea. Each menu is complete and lists five to eight items. All of the recipes are included, even the obvious simple basic ones that most of us already know about. The recipes are simple and elegant, all seem fabulous and easy to make with ingredients most of us already have in our pantries.

The book is a collaboration of three women who are lifelong friends. One watercolors and hand letters the calligraphy, another is responsible for the watercolor vignettes and the third is the writer.

I thought this book was going to have more history info. It is a good basic starter book to get you going with recipes.

When buying on line. It is hard to get the feel of it. It is like a miss or hit unless you have seen the book before.

Though I have several other books of this type, this is a very nice little book about afternoon tea. I've tried several of the recipes and they were yummy. Interesting information about the tea and the history of afternoon tea. It would make a nice gift to include with a a special tea cup or tea pot.

This book is small but provides a variety of recipes for tea. The pages all are colorful with pretty watercolor pictures which would make it nice as a gift or even a coffee table book. I've been happy with it so far.

I was disappointed in this book. I love tea books that are full of text and photos. This was short on photos.

It's a good book to read and enjoy. Has good recipes too...

This is a great book with a lot of helpful recipies. I enjoy it immensly.