Vegan Victorian Tea Party

As I am participating in the Middlemarch readalong and this is the week for discussion, I felt drawn to create a menu for a wonderful early Victorian tea party for this week's Meatless Monday. What are a few of my favourite things? Victorian literature, tea, vegan scones & cake :)

Without further ado, please consider yourself invited to my tea party. Pull up a comfortable chair, have a cup of tea, and crack open a nice long Victorian novel (may I suggest Dickens, George Eliot, or Wilkie Collins?)

Selection of Teas

Murchie's Library Blend

Any Selection from Novel Teas

Sandwiches

A Variety of Finger Sandwiches

Dainty & Unusual Tea Sandwiches

Cakes

Lavender Tea Cake

Rich Chocolate Cake

Scones

Blackberry Almond Scones

Ginger Chocolate Chunk Scones

Oatmeal Currant Scones



Toppings

Lemon Curd

Vegan 'Clotted Cream'

Jam (you can make your own!)

Petits-fours

Vegan YumYum's Petits Fours

(actual photo of VeganYumYum's Petits Fours, from her blog)

Or, you can just take a look at this Afternoon Tea article in the Veg News for more inspiration, or perhaps the tea menus from The Cat-Tea Corner, or maybe the yummy pictures of Vegan Lunch Box's birthday tea. Whatever you choose, enjoy yourself :)