Tasty Tuesday-A Book Review The Vintage Tea Party Book

 

 

I love cookbooks and I love vintage so of course I had to get Angel Adoree's The Vintage Tea Party Book.  This beautiful book has lots of fancy recipes and ideas for vintage tea parties.  If I was a crafty person, I'm not, I could probably attempt some of fancier recipes, like jam lollipop sandwiches or the elaborate decorations.   However, since I found the recipes a bit too challenging I have basically just looked at the book for a year, which doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it, it is beautiful.   Recently however I made the two easiest recipes in the book.

Eggs Cocotte and Broiled Grapefruit.  Eggs Cocotte are meant to be made in an egg coddler but since I don't have one I used a remekin.  This recipe is really just a guideline and not a recipe.

Eggs Cocotte
1 egg
2 tbsp of cream
pinch of salt and pepper
flavorings like minced herbs, a drop of truffle oil, minced mushrooms, ham, smoked salmon or scallions

Preheat the oven to 350 and bring a kettle of water to boil.  Place the cocotte or the ramekin in a baking pan and pour the water to half way up the side.  Bake 15 minutes.

Broiled Grapefruit

1 grape fruit halved
honey
mint
cream fraiche

Preheat the oven to 475.  Slice the grape fruit in half and separate the sections with a knife.  Bake 5 minutes until blackened in spots.  Spoon on some honey and cream fraiche and minced mint.

If you are interested in reading an interview with Angel Adoree here is a link.

All of her books are available on Amazon.