High Tea in Vaigaga

Inspired by our High Tea at Raffles earlier in the year Angela decided that she would have her own high tea here as a Xmas get together with a few friends.

In the weeks leading up to the high tea there was plenty of consulting recipe books and magazines to find suitable recipes (with ingredients that we can get here!) and slowly the menu started to come together – actually the menu got a bit out of control with dozens of suggestions on the list. Anyway, the day before the big event Angela hit the kitchen and I made trips back and forth to the supermarket for vital ingredients! She really cooked up a storm – good enough to rival Raffles!

Our high tea started with a champagne cocktail and fresh fruit platter, including pineapple from our garden, passion fruit curd tartlets and scones with guava jam and lemon curd.

The second round was custard squares, passion fruit tart and guava shortcake with ice-cream.

The final round was for the chocolate lovers - chocolate lamingtons, chocolate chip cookies and chocolate rum balls!

All of this was served with selections of teas that we brought back from Singapore – strawberry tea, French earl grey tea, rose and vanilla tea, with chocolate tea to finish.

This was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.