Welsh Tea Time

Recently cleaning out old cookbooks from my collection

I came across a cookbook called Warm and Tasty.

In it was several pages for a Welsh Tea time.

"Welsh immigrants left their land of mountains and deep green
valleys in the early nineteenth century and brought their songs,
language, and religion to the United States, hoping to keep all
things Welsh intact. They lost most of them to Americanism,
but their singing survived. Church and community song fests
 remain the greatest recreation of Welsh descendants in this country.

Hold a Welsh tea on a Sunday afternoon with your singing friends.
Savories, sweets, and strong tea that kept the working man's soul
in harmony make this a gala Welsh tea stove top party, which will
bring out the Welsh in all of us. Serve the fare with handwoven linens
and ironstone cups and plates in a green and white color scheme.
A true Welshman would display the ancient druid red dragon with an
upright knotted tail and fill the air with harp music."
~Warm & Tasty, The Wood Heat Stove Cookbook
by Margaret Byrd Adams

The suggested menu included: Strong Tea, Welsh Cakes (in pictures),
Raisin Bread, Seed Cake, Glamorgan Sausages,
Lemon Curd and Toast, Butter, Cheese, Orange Marmalade,
and Salmon Spread

Tomorrow I will share the recipe for the Welsh Cakes.
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