Teacup of the Day: Moss Rose by Royal Albert

This was the china pattern at Lisa's Tea Treasures in Menlo Park, where I briefly worked.  The house tea there was a floral earl grey blend called My Ladies Respite.  If you had the My Ladies Respite afternoon tea, it was served with a variety of tea sandwiches, a warm scone with double devonshire cream, a warm herb souffle, and a trio of petite desserts.

Fancy French Tea Party

I am currently planning a fancy french tea party.  The menu thus far is as follows;

Baked Brie & Apricot Croissant
Chevre & Tomato Confit Croustade
Onion & Feta Tartlet
Salmon a La Queen on Roasted Potato
Mushroom Quiche
A trio of Tea Sandwiches
Petit Scones: Lavender, Pistachio, and Lemon
Fleur de Sel Chocolate Truffle Cake
Fresh Fruit Strata
Chocolate Soufflé

Champagne

A Selection of French Teas

The china palette will be Pink & Sage

*@%!ing found it!

After HOURS of searching... I stumbled upon it today...

Royal Crown Derby.

Royal Antoinette.

*@%!ing expensive.

Mystery Teapot

It is a sad sad thing when all of your teacups are in storage and you never get to see them.  I was reminded of this sad sad fact yesterday, when I was having tea with friends at Tea Upon Chatsworth, which is lovely.  I acquired 2 lovely new teacups, and sampled some wonderful teas.

I also came one step closer to finding the teapot/teacup I have been obsessing over since I first dusted it @ Lisa's Tea Treasures in Menlo Park.

I don't know anything about it except for the following;

I believe it's french, it has a scalloped gold rim, is covered in flowers and silver stars, and in 1998, it was pricey!

I saw a picture of it in a tearoom book, but no more information about the pattern.

It's on page 91 in "great Tea Rooms of America"... I've wasted countless hours online looking for this illusive tea cup.

Bother.

Liquor? I don't even know her!

Yes, that's crass. But whatever.

So for the continuing tea selection adventure, Adagio offers two alcohol-flavored teas: rum and pina colada. The notion of a pina colada tea makes me break out in a cold sweat, so I'm thinking rum.

And maybe the base tea should be something simple, like Assam?

That leaves the third element of the mix - caramel? vanilla? What else would go with rum?

Best Tea EVER...

Our own tea, eh?  In my vast, and lifelong tea drinking experience, I have found that there is a purpose for every tea... breakfast, gossip, wellness, etc...

the most fun of which is gossip.  Gossip teas should be flavored black teas.

My favorite tea was one mixed by "Lisa's Tea Treasure's" and it was called "Victorian Parfait".

It was a black tea with nuts, dried cherries, caramel and chocolate flavors.  I think there were even a few dried banana chips... but I'm not a giant fan of banana's... so it was subtle.

Other than the fancy french teas we adore... my current favorite flavor is one the boy ordered my a crate of.  It's from the Bahamas and it's Vanilla Rum Tea. 

Yum.

I think if we were to mix a tea, it would have to have some sort of booze flavor in it... I've also never been able to find anything like "Victorian Parfait", so it would be lovely to mix that.