Mrs Hall’s Yorkshire Dales High Tea – A proper Yorkshire High Tea, just like Mrs Hall serves in James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small
A Proper Yorkshire Dales High Tea as served in Skeldale House
We’ve just returned from a break to the Yorkshire Dales, which is a favourite part of England for both of us.
We stayed in the pretty little village of Aysgarth, in Wensleydale, in a really lovely B & B, which we will definitely return to again in the near future.
From our B & B, after a full cooked breakfast every day, we travelled all over the Dales, and visited some beautiful countryside.
We tried lots of local produce, such as local cheeses and ales, and enjoyed some fabulous pub grub in the evenings.
We’re both avid fans of all of the James Herriot books, and the TV series All Creatures Great and Small, and we loved seeing all the locations used in the latest Channel 5 series.
Also, as a cook, recipe creator and lover of food, it’s fascinating seeing what Mrs Hall serves to James, Siegfried, Tristan and Helen in the TV series.
Apparently, she is famous for her buttery Shortbread biscuits, as well as her full cooked English breakfasts, Sunday Roasts and her Dales High Teas too.
I am a BIG fan of a proper High Tea myself, as well as my Sunday Tea Trays which are always featured every week on Instagram here: Sunday Tea Tray Suppers.
So, in my first post about our trip to the Yorkshire Dales, and as All Creatures Great and Small is back on our screens this Autumn, here’s my menu for a proper Dales High Tea.
I have posted some images (below) of a recent High Tea we enjoyed with our family, with all the recipes I used. I hope you enjoy this menu if you try it, and please do let me know, Karen
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Yorkshire Dales High Tea Recipes
- Fruity Aromatic Slow Cooker Ham (Gammon)
- Overnight Farmhouse Wholemeal Bread Loaf
- Traditional British Ploughman’s Lunch
- Autumn Chutney (Ninja/Slow Cooker)
- Quick Sweet Pickled Cucumbers
- Traditional Homemade Pickled Onions
- Yorkshire Curd Tart
- Home away from Home: Betty’s Fat Rascals Recipe
- Yorkshire Salad aka Durham Salad or Mint Salad
Mrs Hall’s Shortbread Recipe
A note for my British readers, all purpose flour is plain flour, and superfine sugar is caster sugar
More of Mrs Hall’s Meals
Dales High Tea
Mrs. Katherine Parathyras says
Hi from New York City, I really enjoyed this post as I am planning to do a similar trip next spring with my sisters. We probably won’t get the new series of ACGAS until January and I can’t wait for that (as well as Call the Midwife). My question to you is, how did you travel around the Dales? Did you drive? or is it possible to take public transport? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Katherine
Karen Burns-Booth says
Hello there.
Public transport is very easy around the Dales, as in Dales buses and the train goes nearby too, from other major UK towns and cities.
We drove this time, but I have used the buses in the past.
Karen
Julie in Texas says
Is high tea served at a particular hour? It looks scrumptious, as do your Sunday Tea Trays.
Karen Burns-Booth says
Thanks Julie – usually High Tea is served from 5pm onward, as a proper sit down tea.
Mary Beltran says
A timely post as we are in the midst of reading the first book/installment of ACG&S for homeschool. (And
we greatly enjoy watching the series on televison. The ACG&S crew is spoiled with Mrs. Hall’s goodies on set.) What a delight reading on your food blog about The Dales and of course the recipes all
sound delicious! W’e’ll be preparing and partaking of the jam tarts sometime this week using locally grown and made marionberry jam.
This post is a goldmine! Thank you so much, Karen!