At this year’s museum tea, Tina Jesson of www.TinasTraditional.com was the presenter to discuss the history of tea. She mentioned her PowerPoint was several years old and probably had outdated statistics about the tea lesson. But Tina’s personal story of growing up in England (she moved to Indiana in 2008) and owning a wonderful tea shop for many years was still worth listening to a lecture with old info.
Lisa joined this afternoon tea with JASNA-Indiana pals Lisa Whitaker and Mary Miller (and Mary’s cousin Maria!) and it was a fun treat. At a price of $15 per person, we thought this would be more like cream tea, but were surprised to see some finger sandwiches included.
Sassafras Tea Room provided the yummy chicken salad sandwiches. The cucumber sandwiches maybe had a tiny bit too much horseradish or something twangy in there. Katsu teas provided a nice loose-leaf tea in bags of Jasmine green tea, Honeybos (honeybush and red rooibus) and Katsu’s favorite blend: a mix of chamomile, red rooibus and peppermint.
The scones were small, American-style with a sweet sugar glaze – so I opted for no butter or jam.
Sweets were yummy macarons (I had strawberry) and madelines. The madelines were interesting similar to sweet cornmeal cakes, so I added butter to them.
Museum volunteers brought around plenty of hot water and extra sandwiches and sweets.
We appreciated the nice touches with the sweet nameplates and favors of tiny hat fascinators.
Cost: $15 per person
Afternoon Tea Time with Lisa & Nick 