If you have a friend that enjoys tea, this is a fun and easy gift to assemble:
MATERIALS
- a pair of tea cups with saucers
- (these are prolific at thrift stores, and usually fairly inexpensive - the saucers are optional)
a small basket (big enough for the two tea cups)
2-3 tea bags per cup
- (you don't have to include the entire box of tea)
Tea Bag envelopes [courtesy of Marilyn Scott Waters]
- They can be printed out in Red & Blue or Pink & Green
Demerara (raw sugar) cubes or Honey sticks
Cellophane (not plastic wrap)
Tea Biscuits (recipe follows)
raffia or ribbon
INSTRUCTIONS
- print the Tea Bag envelopes, cut them out and assemble
- insert tea bags into envelopes & place in tea cups
- assemble everything in the basket
- place basket on unrolled cellophane
- cut a piece of cellophane large enough to gather around the basket
- tie raffia or ribbon around the top of the cellophane.
note: if you like you can assemble ingredients into the tea cups and wrap them with cellophane (& do without the basket)
TEA BISCUIT RECIPE
- INGREDIENTS
- Preheat oven to 375º
- Sift the first 4 ingredients together onto a piece of wax paper.
- Make a well in the center with walls high enough to contain the liquid ingredients;
- add eggs, oil, vanilla, and orange juice.
- Knead dough very lightly for a few seconds on a lightly floured board.
- Pat the dough gently and cut the dough with a floured cutter.
- Place biscuits on a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 375º F for 15-20 minutes. The tea biscuits should rise and be lightly brown in color.
- When done, and still warm, sprinkle tops with sugar.
- 4 c. flour
3/4 c. sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 c. oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 c. orange juice
1/4 lb. butter, softened
Sugar
Recipe Source: Cooks.com
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