Jane Austen Birthday Party: Tea Tray Memory Game

Party time!

So as you know if you have been following my page, I just celebrated my 29th birthday with a Jane Austen Garden Tea Party.

In my earlier posts, I have shared invitations, decorations, the menu, piñata, prizes, paper fan making, croquet, and more.

But you can’t have a party without games! In my last post, I shared about the first game, Jane Austen trivia. For the second game I was looking online and I spotted a post by Plum Deluxe about ideas for Tea Party games. One of which was to have a tea tray memory game.

I have played versions of this game in the past at many bridal or baby showers, and a few years ago I did this exact game for a friend’s Spring Tea Party Bridal Shower. This is so easy to do, all you have to do is collect tea themed (or in my case Jane Austen and Tea themed objects). I used the following items:

• “I ❤️ Mr. Darcy“ Clutch Bag (I won in a giveaway by Ellery Adams)
• Hat Pin (from my mysterious packages I received last year)
• Pioneer Woman Wildflower Whimsy Tea Bag Holder
• A Pink Flower Handkerchief (a gift from my Tia Chata
• What Would Jane Do? Quips and Wisdom from Jane Austen
• NovelTea Tins Sense and Senchability Tea
• NovelTea Tins Pride and Peppermint Tea
• Gentlemen Magazine Jane Austen Cover Card
• Mademoiselle Magazine Jane Austen Cover Card
• A Card from Northanger Soapworks
• A String of Pearls
• Cat Teaspoon
• Garden Diary by Héline Ashworth (also from the mysterious packages I received last year)
• The Netherfield Ball Diary/Notebook (a gift from TeaisforTravel when we did the Advent Calendar Tea Exchange)
• A Ring
• A Butter Spreader
• A small jar of jam
• Blueberry Scone Mix
• A Teapot
• A Teacup and Saucer (not featured in the picture)
• A copy of Tea Time Magazine
• A tiny bear of honey
• A Cat Tea Charm Infuser

I wish I had taken a better picture, but I wanted to snap one quick before we played the game.

Oh well…

We had a lot of fun playing this game and people thought it was easier than the trivia game. My friend won this one by getting 17/23, and they chose prize two.

For more of my Jane Austen Birthday plans, go to Jane Austen Birthday Party: Game I, Jane Austen Trivia

For more Jane Austen party ideas, go to Jane Austen Birthday Party Menu, Plus How to Dip Cookies in Chocolate, and a Sugar Cookie Recipe

For more Jane Austen games, go to Marrying Mr. Darcy: The Pride and Prejudice Card Game

Scottish Oat Scones

So at the end of last month, my book club met and discussed the book The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie. Typically we just have light snacks, but as I didn’t have to work due to the quarantine, I decided I would do a little tea party.

And eat scones!

We had egg salad sandwiches, ham and cheese sandwiches, french fries (pommes pont neuf), Scottish Oat scones, lemon curd, lemon crinkle cookies, and meyer lemon poppyseed cake. Instead of putting all the recipes in one post and making it too long, I decided to break it up and share each recipe separately so that if interested, you can make your own and eat it with a cup of tea and some Jane Austen.

Today’s scone recipe I found on pinterest, but originally comes from Lisa’s Kitchen. 

Ingredients:

• 1.5 Cups of Flour
• 2 Cups of Rolled or Steel Cut Oats
• 1/4 Cup of Sugar
• 4 Teaspoons of Baking Powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon of salt
• 1 Large Egg
• 1/2 Cup of Unsalted Butter (1 stick), melted
• 1/3 Cup of Milk

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and grease or line a baking sheet.
2. In a large bowl combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
4. In small bowl, beat the egg until frothy.
5. Now add butter and milk to egg, and whisk to combine.
6. Pour into dry ingredients and mix together until you have a soft dough.
7. Shape and pat the dough into two 6-7 inch circles.
8. Cut into 6-8 pie shaped wedges and bake 10-15 mins, or until golden brown.
9. Let cool for a few minutes.
10. Serve with butter and/or jam.

This were very good, but the dough was a little dry which made it hard to stick together, ad after they baked they crumbled. I think if I was to make them again I would add a little more milk.

Otherwise these were delicious! I could see making them again and again and enjoy them.

Or scones!

For more scone recipes, go to Irish Blueberry Scones

For more recipes, go to Ginger Cardamom Meyer Lemon Crinkle Cookies

For more tea parties, go to Meyer Lemon Poppyseed Cake

For more pinterest recipes, go to Iced Blackberry Infused Earl Grey Tea

My Niece Wanted a Tea Party

So when we think tea party, we think:

But my niece had a different idea

My niece planned it and wanted goldfish, mother’s animal cookies, banana bread, shortbread cookies, popcorn, and waffles.

Oh, well

I love my niece, so we did it her way.

For more tea posts, go to Tea and Biscuits

Basic Chicken Salad

So let’s talk about tea time. We’ve had scones and cookies, we need some sandwiches!

I love chicken salad, and here is a basic recipe. I’ll do a Waldorf Chicken Salad in the future. I got this recipe from my sister blog MysteriousEats.wordpress.com

Ingredients:

• 1.5 Cups of Cooked Chicken (I like using the rotisserie chicken)
• 1/2 Cup of Chopped Celery
• 1/3 Cup of Chopped Onion
• 1/2 Cup of Mayonnaise
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• Bread

Directions:

1. Toast bread.
2. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
3. Spread the chicken salad on the toasted bread.

Delicious

A great addition to any one’s tea time.

Ready for high tea!

For more recipes, go to London Fog Smoothie

For more salad recipes, go to Triple Berry Salad

For more from MysteriousEats, go to London Fog Fauxccino

Crasins Scones

What goes better with a Jane Austen novel than scones? Nothing! As I just love to read my books with a good cup of tea and a scone I just had to reblog this post from my sister blog.

Mysterious Eats

Thoughts Before Baking:

I was going to a tea party and decided to bring some scones. The recipe in The Cat Who… Cookbook, that I got from my brother blog TheCatWhoWroteaBlog.wordpress.com sounded good but I didn’t have all the ingredients needed.

So I had to substitute. Let’s see how these turn out.

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups of All-Purpose Flour
• 1.5 Teaspoons Cream of Tartar
• 3/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/8 Teaspoon of Salt
• 1 Stick of Butter or Margarine, softened
• 1 Egg, Beaten
• 1/2 Cup of Crasins
• 1/4 Cup of Milk
• 3/4 Cup of Plain Yogurt
• 1 Tablespoon Cream or Milk
• 1 Tablespoon of Sugar
• Clotted Cream
• Cream Cheese
• Jam

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400°.
2. Sift or mix the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together.
3. Cut in the butter or margarine until the mixture is about the size of small peas.
4. Add the egg, the crasins, milk, and…

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