TEA-TABLE FASHIONS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 3

TEA-TABLE FASHIONS.

Little Buns and Shortbread. Juet now the tea,.ime fashion in London's Mayfair is all for traditional cdunrry fare, either English or S?cot.tish. This is. no double the direct result of the Queen’s known preference tor homely Scottith bannocks and shortbread at the Royal teattable, and It is also very suitable that Coronation year should bring a revival of azi’.ional delicacies, says an English pap r. Mrs. Warren Pearl, tor instance, when she asked her friends to come and discuss the matinee performance of “Pride and Prejudice,” to which Queen Mary had promised to come, provided Scottish drop scones and English ginger mlts and oatmeal biscuits. Mrs Baldwin, at 10, Downing Street, had a tea-party which those tiny shiny buns known as “farthing buns” were prominent, and Lady Londonderry and Lady Anglesey, among others, ate them with evident enjoyment. Lady Eleanor Keane, who plannd the first milk bar on a Cage after the gala ballet held recently, which the Queen attended, decided that wir.'h tea or with sherry English "cifeese straws would be popular.