Sugar, for sure, but I didn’t even know you could have milk in your tea until I was in my teens I think? Milk in coffee or tea was not something that we did.. an Eastern European cultural thing I guessed?

Hi Maria-Aww what a sweet story about when you met! I know not everyone loves the flavour of it.

Did you have milk and sugar in your tea growing up?

Thankyou so much! I like using almond meal, cakes always taste so much more moist with it

I was introduced to Earl Grey properly when I met my husband. It seemed to be his ‘main’ tea. In fact, my first present from him was a pink teapot and we’d watch TV and brew pots of tea and our hearts would race in each others company

I then went off it a little.. perhaps because I drank it often..which for me was one or two cups a day. Now ..these days.. I have an occasional milky style very weak latte. My hubby went from loathing the smell of coffee and hating coffee immensly to now.. always having double strength long blacks, unsweetened. From one extreme to the other. Which is quite auspicious for him…

Anyway.. I was brought up with black tea, my Hungarian family served it to us as children, making it in a saucepan over the stove before we ever had an electric kettle..or any kind of kettle for that matter. It was Liptons or Chammomile always. My first try of Earl Grey was forced on me in London and I didn’t like it. But hubby made it grow on me.. and I don’t mind the bergamot fragrance anymore.

These cakes look lovely Lorraine. I love the inclusion of almond or hazelnut meal. And your props, as always are exquisite