Whimsey Jar Tea Swap I just made

Today I created a Teat themed Whimsey Jar for my Swap-bot Partner in our Tea Lovers Group. I love making Whimsey Jars and sending them. This was a swap I organized and I can not wait to send this to my Florida Partner! The swap called for a Tastefully Decorated Jar that had to be at least the size of a Peanut Butter Jar and could be plastic so I sent mine in a Mayonnaise Jar. You had to add 4 different tea bags, 4 napkins, a recipe and a tea light.

My swap partner likes Loose leaf tea like I do so I put together enough tea for a good sized pot of

Murchies Earl Grey  and

 Murchies Lavender Black tea

I added a Vanilla Rooibos tea with one of my tea labels that says "Keep calm and drink tea" that I ordered from Favors Favors Etsy Shop  and a Scottish Malt Tea.

I did include a recipe for Lonsdale Scones as well

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cream tartar
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 cup butter, margarine or lard
Enough milk to make a soft dough.
Roll out and cut your dough or drop on to a greased cookie sheet .
Sift all the dry ingredient together, mix in the butter by hand until the mixture is like bread crumbs, add enough milk to form a soft dough.

Bake at 400 F for 15 min or until golden brown

Enjoy with tea and jam of course!

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Banana Milk Chocolate Chip Muffins

I made these for breakfast yesterday morning. Nicholas loved them but my other two did not love them as much. They prefer the dark chocolate chips and I used milk chocolate chips.
Here is the recipe:

1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tbs baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips ( I used milk chocolate chips)
1  egg
1/4  cup cooking oil
1/4 cup  milk
3 mashed bananas

In a mixing bowl place the first 4 ingredients. Mix well.  In a small bowl mix the remaining ingredients then add to your dry mix. Stir only until moisten and then  spoon into muffin papers and bake at 400F for 20-25 minutes. Makes 12 LARGE muffins.

Served with English breakfast tea and it was delightful.
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