High Tea

The first table is savouries and includes Pork Pie, Chicken and Pistachio Terrine, Gravlax with Fennel Orange butter, Chicken liver parfait, miniature toasts with pea puree etc.
The second table is the sweets - Victoria Sponge and Raspberry cream, Eszterhazy Nut Meringue Torte, Blackcurrant Trifle, Chocolate Cloud Roll, Miniature Mincemeat Tartlets etc.

Held at a Grand Home used as a Luxury Hotel in Oamaru. The name is Pen-y-Bryn and it was built in the early 1900s

Three Good things:
1. Don't need any evening meal.
2. One of the hosts was an ardent photographer who had two top cameras.
3. Lots of fun all day in Oamaru!

[Lisa]

I would go right for the sweets!

[Sharon Lee]

it all looks so good… great compositions and costumes

[Jo]

looks like heaps of fun

[Beryl Lloyd]

Fabulous -- makes my mouth water lovely captures of both tables And fancy the Hotel having a Welsh name -Pen-y-Bryn ( Top of the Hill )

[Maggiemae]

@beryl is that what it means? Because it is - at the top of a hill!

[Chris]

Did you get to try the food?

[Maggiemae]

@gooner46 did I ever! I wasn't there just to take pictures, Chris!

[Andrea]

What a great capture and event😊

[Rick Schies]

Wow, what a layout that is, but as you look around, I am really focused on the wood detail around the doorways, very nice

[Mick]

Looks like you had a terrific afternoon Maggiemae, lots to take in in the photo. Pork pie and Victoria sponge for me please! :)

[Kerri]

Great shots

[Pat Knowles]

Well I had to enlarge to see what you were going to eat...doesn't look like you kept to traditional in your menu.....did they have gravlax with fennel in the time of your reconstruction...what is gravlax anyway?
A sumptuous feast!

[Deb]

The pork pie sounds delishious! Love the costumes :D

[Claire]

Oh wow, this all sounds delish; so fabulous

[Corrie]

A lovely capture. I did not think one was alowed to bring an electronic camera or a phone camera into an environment like this Lol!

[Hazel Watkins]

looks great fun, nice capture

[Jerri]

It looks lovely! Glad you captured it for the project! Grand scene and i bet it was fun dressing up!

[Mr. Spock]

Nice event, I'd prefer the second table ;)

[Carole Imes]

Everything sounds so deliciously yummy on both tables. Fabulous elegant scene!

[Judith Greenwood]

You know how to have a good time downunder!

[Taffy]

Now that looks like a fun high tea! Lots of good things to graze on and in such a well captured elegant scene.

[Alison Hewitt Bailey]

Wow, great spreads and a delicious diptych!

[Phil Howcroft]

victoria sponge for me please maggie :) although i am partial to a mincemeat tart too :)

[Yao RL]

How elegant.

[❀ Lynn]

Looks like a wonderful time...I love the period costumes.

[Lisa Pouncy]

I know which table I'd head straight for ;o) xx

[Bev]

Nice shots. I would be hovering over the sweets.

[Maggiemae]

@prttblues Most people seem to whereas I just love the savouries!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Do we get to taste everything? Yum! Love the costumes too.

[Stephanie Swift]

Looks like a really fun and beautiful event to photograph.

[Jan K]

Lovely - the sweet table is very popular! I am with you Maggiemae - the savories are preferred.
What is gravlax?

[Maggiemae]

@jankoos @happypat Gravlax dear ladies, is raw salmon cured in smoke, sugar and dill! So tender and full of flavour!

[Pat Knowles]

@maggiemae A NZ delicacy...?......I must try it!

[Maggiemae]

@happypat Its a Nordic dish, Pat - closer to you than me!