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Check out more of Ellen Easton's Tea Travels™ articles and recipes. Learn about the History of English High Tea, English High Tea Menu, and more delicious Afternoon Tea and High Tea Recipes. A Summer Rose Tea
According to the folklore of
tea, once upon a time a lady was not allowed to socialize unescorted
except in her rose garden. It was here women met, unrestricted by
social rules of etiquette, to speak freely amongst the roses.
Throughout Europe, during the 1800s, the theme of the rose continued
to weave a thread, as afternoon tea flourished in both the public
gardens and tearooms.
Fashionable women’s tea gowns embraced the delicate pastel palate of
a summer bouquet. Their elaborate bonnets were adorned with floral
displays of roses embellished in silk, ribbon and natural petals.
The decoration of tearooms
included accoutrements, fabrics, vases, and trellises of roses to
insure that their patrons would once again feel free to gossip under
the roses. Rose
Inspirations:
Table
Decorations:
Center pieces, linens, napkin rings, china, crystal, silver,
baskets.
For recipes, click on the underlined.
Rose Petal Tea
ELLEN EASTON, author of AFTERNOON TEA...TIPS,TERMS and
TRADITIONS and Good $ense For $uccess™, is a consultant to
leading hotels and tearooms, including The PLAZA and LADY
MENDL’s, is speaker and designer of related products to the
hotel, food service, retail and special event industries.
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