A Love Letter to a Pot of Tea and a Scone

[impulsereader]

This concept is where our friends who live in Scotland, Ireland, and England have got it completely right. A pot of tea, lovingly providing me with two and a half cups of delightfully aromatic nectar, each of which I must be careful to fully blow cool before I begin sipping - I did actually typo that as shipping the first time - absolutely seduces me into taking a leisurely break with it. In america my paramour would be a bottled beverage, easily capped and taken along for the ride - the little tart.

And the loveliness of a scone! How can I possibly do this justice? Carefully cut in two, butter first, then jam carefully applied; the best lover striving mightily to carefully apportion exactly equally these tokens of love between halves. There is no possible american equivalent, our toast comes pre-buttered - as if it has been cheating on us.

Tea, I love you.

Scone, I adore you with a passion despite knowing how many calories you contain.

Love,
impulsereader

Comments

[northernwalker]

I love scones! Every now and then I'll end up making a batch and some tea and having that for an early Sunday dinner. Clotted cream and strawberry jam- umm.

I think I know what I'm baking this weekend!

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

So glad to have inspired you!

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Pre-buttered toast? I must be shopping at the wrong (right?) stores.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

More specifically, when we go out to breakfast, our toast comes pre-buttered. Hilarious - you're going to the right stores if your bread is neither toasted nor buttered!

This makes me think of 101 Dalmations which I just reread. There is a lovely scene about toasting bread in front of the fire and ghost dalmations of the past.

LJ is insisting that I am misspelling dalmations. Of course, it is also insisting that I've misspelled LJ...

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, restaurants! I wasn't thinking of that, obviously. :D

I've never read 101 Dalmatians! (I think it's spelled -tiAns...)

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

I hate it when I do that - and do it three times within the same instance. The book is very good, I would recommend it. It isn't terribly profound, but it is deeper than the Disney - I'm not knocking Disney - I grew up with the beloved stuffed versions of Pongo and Perdita. Dodie Smith's 'I Capture the Castle' is very good too.