Afternoon Tea: Creating a Dish
TASK 1
Afternoon teas are very popular and are an excellent way for chefs to demonstrate their skills at producing baked products. Prepare, cook and serve four items, at least one of which must be savoury that could be offered as part of an afternoon tea menu.
For this task I have been asked to create a dish suitable for afternoon tea. I aim to make two savoury starters and two sweet desserts which could be eaten as part of a meal throughout the day as my target market is families cooking on a budget.
Tea is a light mid-afternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes. An example would be Battenberg and a cucumber sandwich with crusts cut off a common saying is "An Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea."
Afternoon tea is not common these days because most adults go out to work. However, you can still have Afternoon tea at the many tea rooms around London e.g. the Ritz and the Savoy.
Afternoon tea became popular about 150 years ago, when rich ladies invited their friends to their houses for an afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon enough everyone caught on and was enjoying Afternoon tea (The traditional 4 o'clock tea).
The British working population did not have Afternoon Tea. They had a meal about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven o'clock. This meal was called 'high tea' (Today, most people refer to the evening meal as dinner or supper.)
Sweet treats
Mini Tarts – With Strawberry and Lemon Curd Fillings
Mini Cupcakes with Butter cream icing
Savoury
Mini Sausage Plaits
Mini Meat Patties
Developments in afternoon tea
Afternoon tea has changed a lot for instants back in the early 19th century they had to make their own bread, cakes, scones but now we have a wide range of machinery to make them also we now have cake and biscuit mixes but in the early 19th century everyone had to make their own bread, cakes, scones. My bakery serves: Soups, The All
Afternoon teas are very popular and are an excellent way for chefs to demonstrate their skills at producing baked products. Prepare, cook and serve four items, at least one of which must be savoury that could be offered as part of an afternoon tea menu.
For this task I have been asked to create a dish suitable for afternoon tea. I aim to make two savoury starters and two sweet desserts which could be eaten as part of a meal throughout the day as my target market is families cooking on a budget.
Tea is a light mid-afternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes. An example would be Battenberg and a cucumber sandwich with crusts cut off a common saying is "An Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea."
Afternoon tea is not common these days because most adults go out to work. However, you can still have Afternoon tea at the many tea rooms around London e.g. the Ritz and the Savoy.
Afternoon tea became popular about 150 years ago, when rich ladies invited their friends to their houses for an afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon enough everyone caught on and was enjoying Afternoon tea (The traditional 4 o'clock tea).
The British working population did not have Afternoon Tea. They had a meal about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven o'clock. This meal was called 'high tea' (Today, most people refer to the evening meal as dinner or supper.)
Sweet treats
Mini Tarts – With Strawberry and Lemon Curd Fillings
Mini Cupcakes with Butter cream icing
Savoury
Mini Sausage Plaits
Mini Meat Patties
Developments in afternoon tea
Afternoon tea has changed a lot for instants back in the early 19th century they had to make their own bread, cakes, scones but now we have a wide range of machinery to make them also we now have cake and biscuit mixes but in the early 19th century everyone had to make their own bread, cakes, scones. My bakery serves: Soups, The All