The LaForge Tea Party

It was a lovely intimate little tea party, with acanthusleaf, ldyanna, and joycebre in attendence:



The basic idea was to put together a light afternoon tea that was appropriate for the 1870s (the original date of the tea set) and if possible included foods mentioned in great-great-grandpa Abiel's diaries. The diary angle was tough (although I always enjoy getting sucked into reading it) because he didn't tend to write about food in detail. ( Interested in more? )

One more LaForge note

In the context of showing off the tea set, it occurs to me to mention that I'm working on putting great-great-grandpa Abiel's diaries on-line. So far I've only got 1861-1863 up -- it's a bit tedious since I have to clean up the word processing files a bit as well as coding the links and doing a little indexing.

EDITED: Whoops, I forgot that this material isn't actually on-line yet. The html links in my original post pointed to internal files on my computer, which wasn't going to help anyone else in the slightest! I really do need to get back to this project.

EDITED AGAIN: Ack. No, the files are up, I just got confused while poking around in some of the related material on my computer. Sorry about that. So to reinstate my previous teaser: the foodies may enjoy this passage. Now I need to just leave this entry well enough alone!