{"id":23344,"date":"2010-04-14T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2016-09-14T20:32:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:32:30","slug":"the-white-heather-tea-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-white-heather-tea-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Heather Tea Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mrs. H wanted to round out the Butchart Garden excursion with an introduction to a traditional English high tea. Neil Z<\/a> commented last night that he had an amazing high tea experience at the White Heather Tea Room<\/a>. A quick check of other reviews convinced me to try it out. We ordered the ‘Big Muckle Giant Tea’ and were not disappointed!<\/p>\n

I didn’t think to bring in my camera, so here is an idea of what our spread looked like, on three plates set on a tiered stand:<\/p>\n

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we didn’t have that huge plate of shortbread in the foreground \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

They have a large selection of teas, including Balmoral, their version of the Earl Grey and jasmine tea<\/a> I discovered in Edmonton. Yuuuuum.<\/p>\n

The homemade fare is worth describing in detail. Let’s see if I can remember it all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tier One (the bottom plate):<\/p>\n

-scone (cranberry or apricot ginger) with Devonshire (sweet whipped) cream, raspberry preserves, and\/or lemon curd;<\/p>\n

-mini quiche with sundried tomatoes;<\/p>\n

-a bite-sized cheese thing with roasted red peppers (yuuuuuuum);<\/p>\n

-fruit slices (apple and orange).<\/p>\n

Tier two (middle plate):<\/p>\n

-a mini savory scone with the most amazing smoky sweet salmon I have ever had;<\/p>\n

-rolled sandwiches (egg (which I didn’t eat); ham with relish; and cucumber with cream cheese on marbelized rye (yuuuuuuum)).<\/p>\n

Tier three (top plate):<\/p>\n

Dessert!<\/p>\n

-an incredible cranberry brownie (that had a distinct coffee aftertaste);<\/p>\n

-lemony blueberry pound cake with icing;<\/p>\n

-a cheesy cracker thing with a bit of apple on top (one of my favourite things today);<\/p>\n

-delicious crispy and buttery shortbread (I’ll admit to dipping it in Devonshire cream mixed with raspberry preserves!);<\/p>\n

-a little tart filled with lemon curd and topped with Devonshire cream.<\/p>\n

I wound up taking most of Mrs. H’s desserts home and will enjoy them with regular tea before bed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It didn’t seem like much food until we started on it. The portions were small, but there were a lot of them.<\/p>\n

High tea at the White Heather Tea Room is definitely an experience I will never forget. Thank you for the recommendation, Neil!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mrs. H wanted to round out the Butchart Garden excursion with an introduction to a traditional English high tea. Neil Z commented last night that he had an amazing high tea experience at the White Heather Tea Room. A quick check of other reviews convinced me to try it out. We ordered the ‘Big Muckle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,5,3,1416],"tags":[717,794],"class_list":["post-23344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-victoria-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel","tag-experiences","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}