Mystery Playground High Tea

It's time for high tea at Mystery Playground so we're making fun sandwiches and reading excerpts from some of our favorite mysteries. 

• Laura Childs' Egg Drop Dead
• Christopher Mari and Jeremy K. Brown's Ocean of Storm's
• Don Bruns, Casting Bones
• Evelyn David's Murder off the Books
• Art Taylor's Parallel Play
• Ellen Byron's Body on the Bayou
• Amanda Flower's Prose and Cons
• Terrie Farley Moran's Well Read, Then Dead
• Amanda Flower's Final Tap
• Red Flags by Tammy Kaehler
• The Corpse with the Silver Tongue by Cathy Ace
• David Putnam's The Vanquished 

We made three kinds of sandwiches for our tea party and used a tea pot, cat and a cup cookie cutter to make the fun shapes. You could tell what kind of sandwich it was by the shape. I'll illustrate the technique with the Brie, Ham and Mustard Sandwich. 

Materials:

• Cutting Board
• Maille Mustard
• Brie
• Ham
• Cookie Cutters (Wilton tea themed and a cat cutter were used for this post, but you could use any one you fancy)

Sandwich I:  Brie, Ham and Mustard on Dill Rye

First you make the sandwich. I spread brie on one side of a piece of bread, and some of the mustard on the other slice. The ham went in the middle. Then I cut the whole thing by pushing the cookie cutter into the sandwich with some muscle. 

Then put them on a plate.

Other sandwich variations included:

• Pesto, Sliced chicken and Harvarti
• Hard boiled egg and pickles

They were all three yummy. Yes, even the egg and pickle.

If you'd like to know how to brew a proper cup of tea, here is the 10th generation heir of Twinings Tea with all the details: