Plum Delicious – Afternoon Tea Week Cake

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Nosherium Afternoon Tea Week Teacup

This week is Afternoon Tea Week. Officially.

To me, this means that there is hope for civilization in this cruel world.

Now, I know that I am not in the UK, the official location of this miraculous event, but I believe with all my tea-sipping, cake-eating, sandwich-nibbling, teapot-adoring soul that geography cannot limit the reach of Official Afternoon Tea Week. And we still have the weekend to partake in tea! With God and the blogosphere as my witness, the heavens may burn, and WordPress may repeatedly overwrite my post with nonsense, but tea will be had, in the afternoon, with dainty snacks!

 

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Everything You Could Want And More – Rhubarb Compote

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Nosherium Rhubarb Compote

One of my most formative (and perhaps most scarring) culinary memories involves me as an outspoken adolescent, an older family member, and an infamous rhubarb pie. I was staying with a generous relative while my parents were away. I was 15 or 16, and I thought I was everything that a teenager could hope to be. I was loud. I was probably fairly insufferable with my talk of rights and wrongs, egalitarianism and feminism and the patriarchy.

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