I’m a girl obsessive about cake.
I’ve an Instagram account dedicated to baking and this yr I launched a recipe newsletter based on The Great British Bake Off.
Each Christmas my mum and I deal with ourselves to afternoon tea at a complicated resort in London.
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This yr, we determined to provide a house supply field a go, and evidently we had been impressed, actually impressed.
We ordered from Plough, an impartial household enterprise in Mayford, Woking.
That includes foods and drinks from native bakers, dairy farmers and even marshmallow makers, every field celebrates Surrey producers which I believed was beautiful.
At £40 a field, it comfortably serves two adults (we saved heaps for the next day) and it really works out less expensive than eating at a elaborate restaurant.
Every field is artfully present wrapped and delivered direct to the doorstep.
(Picture: Laura Nightingale)
Consisting of all our favorite afternoon tea classics together with scones and tea, the British deal with was given a scrumptious festive twist and I beloved actually all the pieces contained in the field.
There have been candy white chocolate and raspberry purple cookies, cherry Bakewell madeleines, deep stuffed mince pies and golden scones – freshly baked by pastry chef Ellie at Fig’s Bakery in Guildford.
And boy had been these mince pies good. In reality they had been superb.
Comfortable, fluffy, crumbly, buttery, fruity, candy, I may go on without end raving how tasty they had been.
To accompany our scones was a pot of luxurious clotted cream from Dorking dairy farmers, as nicely wealthy raspberry jam hand stirred by Jam Packed for the scones.
As for the savoury objects, six conventional finger slice sandwiches wrapped in tissue paper had been crammed with turkey and stuffing, brie and cranberry and smoked salmon and cream cheese.
All of them tasted very good, with the turkey and stuffing sarnie being my favorite.
Whereas they had been superbly reduce and deliciously stuffed, the one gripe I had, was that there wasn’t sufficient of them.
(Picture: Laura Nightingale)
They had been small and we may have carried out with fewer candy objects for a pair extra sandwiches every.
Finishing the field had been BonBooshs’ Christmas cake flavour fluffy marshmallows and tea from Surrey’s boutique tea firm, The Garden Assortment – each beautiful little extras.
For an important day, there’s the choice so as to add on a bottle of Prosecco handpicked by Chobham’s impartial wine retailers’ The Surrey Wine Cellar.
Plough is more than pleased to cater to dietary necessities together with dairy and gluten free and you’ll anticipate the identical top-notch objects as those within the basic field.
Expertly made, we tried the pastries they usually had been faultless.
In addition to afternoon tea, clients can order hampers, cheese board packing containers, brunch in a field, cocktail and snack packing containers.
They make a stunning current or deal with at dwelling within the run as much as Christmas.
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What’s inside a festive afternoon tea field
- White chocolate and raspberry cookie
- Mince pies
- Cherry Bakewell madeleines
- Bonboosh Christmas cake flavour marshmallows
- Scones with Libby’s Larder clotted cream and jam packed raspberry jam
- Salmon and cream cheese dill sandwiches
- Brie and cranberry sandwiches
- Turkey and stuffing sandwiches
- The Garden Assortment English breakfast tea envelopes
Afternoon tea packing containers for 2 individuals price £40 or £70 for 4 individuals.
A bottle of prosseco is an additional £15.
To order a field go to plough.market.
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