{"id":1265,"date":"2010-05-12T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:49:32","slug":"gluten-free-tea-claridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/gluten-free-tea-claridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Delighting Your Guests: Afternoon Tea at Claridge&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/claridges.jpg\" alt=\"Claridges, London\" title=\"Claridges, London\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" align=\"right\"\/>Yesterday I talked about the afternoon tea party organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geniusglutenfree.com\">Genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I want to tell you about the remarkable contribution to this tea party made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claridges.co.uk\">Claridge&#8217;s<\/a>: the French pastries. <\/p>\n<p>Claridge&#8217;s expert staff had created some very sophisticated cakes for this tea party:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>beautiful raspberry and rosewater macaroons: girlie pink, packed with raspberries and cream, and decorated with a rose-petal and a single dew-drop of sugar syrup. So lovely&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>dainty fruit tartlets with a pastry case: a variety of fruits and cream in an excellent gluten free pastry case (I didn&#8217;t ask whether they&#8217;d used a Genius recipe for the pastry &#8211; I wish I&#8217;d asked!)<\/li>\n<li>and tiny chocolate Ondulay cakes. I don&#8217;t know what an Ondulay cake is, in technical terms, but who cares? This was an outrageously rich, dense mouthful of chocolate cake. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delectable. Amazing. And gluten free. So it can be done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Based on our experience yesterday, Claridge&#8217;s offer a wonderful afternoon tea: with champagne or without, it&#8217;s going to be an experience to savour. So if you ever want to treat yourself to afternoon tea at a prestigious London hotel (or even treat someone else &#8211; but make sure you go as well) this is the one to go for. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this will have to be as a very special treat &#8211; Claridge&#8217;s isn&#8217;t cheap. But it will be worth it. Just be sure to tell them in advance that you&#8217;re gluten free.<\/p>\n<p>And, to seal my (unrequited) love affair with Claridge&#8217;s: I begged for one of the leftover gluten free pastries to take home for my coeliac daughter, who was, of course, at school in Cheshire, eating a baked potato for her school dinner, as she does every day, not in central London drinking champagne (the things I have to do for her!)<\/p>\n<p>The lovely Claridge&#8217;s staff provided a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way to win an admirer for life.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked about the afternoon tea party organised by Genius. Today I want to tell you about the remarkable contribution to this tea party made by Claridge&#8217;s: the French pastries. 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