Making Afternoon Tea on a Cold Winter Day! EASY Recipes!

[Music] good morning everyone I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday weather update it is exactly 0° F outside and we have snow if any day should call for afternoon tea in front of a roaring fire well today is certainly the day and for the afternoon tea I'm going to make some coronation chicken tea sandwiches that we can put on the lower level of this three tiered stand and we will make some of my favorite scans to put on the middle level and then I think we will cheat just a bit for the dessert that goes on the top plate and for the scans I need to weigh out 500 G or about 3 and 1/2 cups of flour and I'm using regular allpurpose flour here then I need a/4 teaspoon of salt 2 tpoon of baking powder and 90 G or just barely a half cup of granulated sugar need my mixing patter and I want to mix these ingredients just to combine them then I need a/ cup or 113 G of cold diced butter throw that right into the flour and then I'm going to use my stand mixer to cut the butter into the flour that will take a couple of minutes and while that's happening I need to measure out 190 Ms or 34 cup of full fat buttermilk and to the buttermilk I'm going to add two large eggs and I want to whisk the eggs into the buttermilk now we can add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture and I'm going to let this mix until all of the flour is moistened we are good and mixed here so now I'm going to scrape the dough onto a lightly flowed work surface which for me is a marble board and we can roll up our sleeves and form this dough into a ball gently knead this dough for about a minute until it is perfectly smooth then I'm going to place the dough smooth side up on my board cover the dough with a towel and let this rest for about 15 minutes so that the flour can absorb all of the moisture so now we can flip this dough so that it smooth side is down add a little more flour here not much and then we need to roll this dough into a circle that is approximately 34s of an inch in thick little flour on top better have my ruler handy this is a gorgeous dough to work with very pillowy I like to make my own scans because the ones that I can buy locally are cut into wedges and they are always as dry as dust I mean they crumble and fall apart they do not hold up well to cream and jam these scans I cut into circles Circle well the circle shape is considered good energy in fun and and these scans are light but they are firm enough to hold up to mountains of clotted cream or crem fresh and strawberry jam and now I'm going to measure this just see if I'm at I'm a little too thick we're good I'm going to cut this dough into rounds and I need to have my parchment line baking tray ready I'm dipping my cutter into a little flour so that the scon doesn't stick or at least I hope it won't stick and when you cut these scans be sure to cut straight down without twisting if you twist the cutter will pinch the edge of the sca and then the scone won't rise properly well it won't rise to its fullest potential [Music] scans are beautifully shaped and I'm going to place them on my parchment line baking tray oh about an inch and a half apart now I can gather my scraps and either Pat out or roll the scraps and kind cut out more [Music] scans now I'm going to cover the scans with the towel and let them rest oh for 10 to 15 minutes [Music] meantime I need to preheat my oven to 375° F or 180° C I want to glaze these scans before they go into the oven so I have one egg here I'm going to beat and I'm going to add just a tiny Splash not more than a teaspoon of Buttermilk you could add regular milk or even just water since I have buttermilk I might as well use it now we can brush the egg wash onto the scon [Music] I should mention that you can make form and freeze the scans before you put egg wash on them Frozen they will last for well months and then when you want to bake them take them out brush them with egg and top them if you want with demarara sugar which is what I'm going to do demarara is a coarse sugar it will give the scans a lovely CR Crunch and into the oven the scans go until they puff and color that will take anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes depending on your [Music] oven oh they look beautiful and here are the scans they are gorgeous they smell wonderful too going to transfer them to a wire rack this one looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa but the rest of them are just perfect and of course all will be delicious going to let these cool and then we can get cracking on the coronation chicken for the coronation chicken I have some cooked chicken breast that I simply need to shred with my mixing Fork coronation chicken was a dish that was created in honor of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in I think it was 1953 or maybe it was 1952 it's a delicious dish and this variation on Coronation chicken is just great for tea sandwiches I don't know why I took everything off of my tray here and to the chicken I'm adding one generous tablespoon of mango chutney which I think my Latin friends is called mango [Music] chutney then I need one generous tablespoon of [Music] mayonnaise and one tablespoon or thereabouts of sour [Music] cream and then Mixie Mixie [Music] I also need a tiny amount of curry powder just a pinch or about a/4 teaspoon and the curry powder will give the chicken mixture a gorgeous golden color I want to have a little taste here this is the perfect combination of savory and sweet and just a tiny amount of heat from the curry powder this is uniquely wonderful let me clean this up and then I can fetch my bread now I very often use my own homemade pandem for tea sandwiches but today I'm just using ordinary white Pepperidge Farm sandwich bread I like the Pepper Farm bread because it does not have a severe crown on top so there's less waste when you remove the crust and I'm just buttering the bread first to create a seal so that I do not have soggy tea sandwiches [Music] you only need a thin layer of butter but you can do a thick layer if you like because everything is better with butter and of course you want to use soften butter so that you don't rip the bread as you're spreading it with butter now we can add the [Music] filling for some extra color I'm going to add some baby spinach leaves and I did remove the stems from these leaves [Music] I have my dog Avery at my feet she cannot resist the smell of of chicken going to do four sandwiches that we will cut into either fingers or triangles and then I will still have some of this gorgeous filling left over so if I want to invite friends for afternoon tea later this week I'll have everything ready to go now I always fill my sandwiches before I remove the crust simply so that I will have a clean Edge on each sandwich also it's very difficult to fill a sandwich after the crust have been removed remov D and I love this serrated bread knife I've had many bread knives over the years this is the one that cuts very cleanly in fact it's the only one that cuts cleanly now I do save all of the scraps and I either snack on them or I freeze them and then use them for a savory bread pudding keep my knife clean here now here's my crust remove sandwich think I will do this one in [Music] triangles I'm going to put each of these on a baking tray that is lined with a damp towel this way the bread won't dry up because we not ready to enjoy our afternoon tea just yet I have a couple of household projects I need to attend to [Music] first so you can cook these scraps even with their filling in a custard of eggs and milk and have yourself a marvelous little supper dish just cleaning up a little here and then going to place another damp towel and by damp I mean just barely damp I sat saturated these tows with water and then I rung them out thoroughly and now these sandwiches can go into the refrigerator for several hours and they will not dry out earlier I mentioned that we will enjoy our afternoon tea in front of a roaring fire well first I need to clean out the ashes from The Parlor fireplace and this gives me a golden opport opportunity to show you the birthday present that Lizette gave to me it's a fireplace vacuum cleaner [Music] this ash vacuum has a special heat resistant filter I think the vacuum Works respectively well [Music] we need to create some kindling for the fire they say that wood warms you twice first when you cut it and next when you burn it [Music] I think this autumnal gilan tea will go very well with our afternoon tea today now when I measure your tea it's always one teaspoon per cup plus one for the pot let me fetch the sandwiches so my sandwiches are snug and they're too damp blankets [Music] and for the scans I have some creme fresh here which is leftover from our recent Christmas dinner video I also have some homemade strawberry jam this is the jam that you and I made together last [Music] June then we need our beautiful scans a spoon for the creme fresh and a spoon for the strawberry jam when you do afternoon tea please don't feel that you have to make everything from scratch let me show you what I'm going to put on the top tier of this stand I have Whitman's sampler these are little chocolates and they are very delicious chocolates at that I also have some colorful macarons these are from a local bakery now I made macarons in a video several years ago and I invite you to watch that video macarons are a bit of work but they are so incredibly delicious whether homemade or store-bought let me take off my apron put on a jacket and then we can head into the Parlor [Music] [Music] [Music] this daring autumnal te or a tumil diling tea is really excellent with or without milk let me dive into one of these coronation chicken sandwiches even though the sandwiches were in the refrigerator for several hours because I had them between damp kitchen towels the bread has stayed very fresh and as I said earlier the coronation chicken filling is the perfect combination of savory and sweet plus the there's just that tiny bit of heat from the curry powder and the scone some creme fresh which goes on the plate not directly on the scan some Jam also on the plate not directly on the scan tear off a piece cream and jam and e it all up I call these my best scans because they really are and they are so easy to make we already know that these desserts are wonderful so let me take a moment to thank you for all of the holiday greetings that you sent either on this YouTube channel or in cards or letters that you sent to my post office box I want you to know that I read every comment every card and every letter and I am truly touched thank you so much well I hope you will give these coronation chicken tea sandwiches a try and also try these very easy scans and I will post the filling ingredients for the coronation chicken in the description box below and I will link the printable recipe for the scans in the description box if you enjoyed today's video I hope you will click the like button and subscribe and comment and also please click the notification Bell so that you can receive notifications every time I upload a new episode and the next episode will air on Sunday and until then please take excellent care of yourself please treat yourself to afternoon tea and I will see you in the next video bye for now friends [Music]