For our South Riding virtual afternoon tea, I could have taken a leaf out of Snaith's book and served "a covered hot-plate of buttered anchovy toast, an angel cake like a sugared snowdrift", or I could have tried to emulate Mrs. Beddows whose tea at Willow Lodge is quite something:
"The plates were piled high with bread and butter, currant loaf and queen cakes; the cheesecakes and lemon tarts lay on frilled netted d'oylies; the spice-bread was rich as buttered cold plum pudding..."
We may lack the frilled netted d'oylies but I have adopted the cheesecake idea and I've made a Yorkshire Curd Tart - you'll find the recipe here. I baked the pastry blind, but otherwise made it as instructed, and the result is very appetising with the nutmeg and lemon coming through well. That quantity made a 9" tart and two small ones from the leftover pastry and filling, by the way.
I'm pleased to see that the book itself is generating a lot of interesting comment, and I'm keen to find out how the current television series measures up. Are you watching it?
