What my late mother classed as her 'nursery teas' were amazing - normally produced for birthday parties. Sponge every which way (in triangles covered with jam/coconut. divided into split rectangles [some iced, some not, some filled with butter cream, some not, topped with vermicelli, silver balls (never knew what they were) violets etc etc. plus chocolate eclairs and cream horns PLUS the actual Birthday Cake. I can't remember the last time I had a cream horn.
Wife is a great cook and I’m a great eater hence - Big Mackem ! Best Yorkshire puddings you could wish for but strangely enough they are my Mams Recipe , their is a story behind it as I used to make my wife her tea on my day off , I had been for lunch at my mams and told her my wife couldn’t make Yorkshire’s like hers . Got a right ear bashing and was warned not to complain , but came away with the all important recipe , at tea time made some excellent Yorkshire’s so much so the wife thought my mam had been through until I convinced her that they were all my own work . Never looked back since though I sometimes have to remind her it was me who taught her how to make the Yorkshire’s !
