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<\/p>\nOne of the Christmas traditions for the family I started some years ago was taking my daughters, grand-daughters, daughter-in-law, step-granddaughter, grandson\u2019s significant other, and my daughters\u2019 more-or-less adopted sister out to High Tea on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s become a high point of the holiday season for me and some of the other ladies, giving us a chance to dress nicely and enjoy tea and dainty food as well as adult female conversation for a few hours in the midst of some of the busiest days of our lives.<\/p>\n
Apparently we\u2019re not alone in enjoying a Christmas Eve High Tea. For the past few years I\u2019ve had to make the reservation well in advance to ensure we could get a time on the 24th<\/sup>. This year I signed up in September, almost as soon as the service made those dates available. I\u2019ll do the same this coming year to ensure the tradition continues.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not actually much a tea drinker \u2013 coffee is my preferred tipple \u2013 but I do like sampling the variety of interesting teas they offer. And I never thought I\u2019d be enjoying a cucumber sandwich, but that was before I tried one and discovered they\u2019re surprisingly delicious. As are the other dainty offerings \u2013 the ham and brie on a cracker, the salmon on cream cheese, and the mini-quiches. Plus a scone with either clotted cream or lemon curd and an assortment of cookies and mini-cakes. Most of the crew prefers the lemon curd on their scones, but I\u2019m for clotted cream all the way.<\/p>\n The plates of goodies don\u2019t look like they\u2019d add up to a meal, but we\u2019ve all noted that we\u2019re feeling pretty full by the time we finish. It\u2019s a lovely way to have a lunch on Christmas eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the Christmas traditions for the family I started some years ago was taking my daughters, grand-daughters, daughter-in-law, step-granddaughter, grandson\u2019s significant other, and my daughters\u2019 more-or-less adopted sister out to High Tea on Christmas Eve. It\u2019s become a high …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,70,337],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-family","category-holidays","tag-high-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}