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Category Archives: Eating
Almond Chocolate Sandwich Cookies from Leith Hall bed and breakfast
Our guests who just left Leith Hall bed and breakfast yesterday asked for the recipe for these almond and chocolate sandwich cookies that I served for tea – so these are for you, Stephanie and Michael von M . You … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, almond chocolate sandwich cookies, Cape May, chocolate, dessert, dessert recipes
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Cape May Craft Beer and Crab Festival
Cape May Craft Beer and Crab Festival Cape May’s Craft Beer and Crab Festival hit town last Saturday. The day was gray and intermittently rainy – not ideal beach weather. So lots of people showed up on the lawn at … Continue reading
Posted in Cape May, Eating, Events, Food, Things to Do, Travel, Vacation
Tagged beer, Cape May, crabs, eating, Food, food celebration, food festival, New Jersey, travel, vacation
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Leith Hall Bed and Breakfast Chocolate Cherry Cake
Leith Hall Bed and Breakfast Chocolate Cherry Cake I recently served this rich chocolate cherry cake at Leith Hall at teatime. Our guests asked for the recipe, so here it is. I bake it in a glass bundt pan, but … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate championship, dessert, Food, vacation
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LEITH HALL’S SINFULLY RICH ORANGE AND CREAM CAKE
This past week, our guests devoured this cake and a cherry devil’s food cake at afternoon tea. They asked for the recipe for both cakes. This is the orange one, which is flavored with sour cream and orange marmalade and … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, Cape May, dessert, dessert recipes
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Craft Beer and Crab Festival
Craft Beer and Crab Festival A new festival in Cape May - The Craft Beer and Crab Festival will be this coming August 11 on the grounds of the Physick Estate. The café patio will be transformed into a food … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Cape May, crab, festival, Food, New Jersey, vacation
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Seaside Cheese – A Cape May Treasure
Seaside Cheese – A Cape May Takeout Treasure One of our guests recently gave us a huge quarter-of-a-circle sandwich that they had left over from a picnic on the beach. They’d bought a giant circular sandwich made of a flat … Continue reading
IT’S A MIRACLE!
Chocolate – Miracle Food? Those of you old enough will remember the 1973 movie Sleeper, in which Woody Allen wakes up far, far, into the future and discovers that the really healthy activities are smoking cigarettes and eating ice cream. … Continue reading
A TALE OF TWO CHEESECAKES
Jewish and Siciliano New York This cheesecake is trying to reproduce one made by an old college friend, Kenny Kleinrock’s mother. She approached the task as a scientific experiment, trying many variations ’till she found the perfect, the archetypal, … Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Food, Italy, Travel
Tagged afternoon tea, bed and breakfast, Cape May, dessert, dessert recipes, travel
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Eat, Drink and be Merry
Visit Leith Hall and Feast This is restaurant week in Cape May. Many of our best eateries have prix fixe, three course dinners for $35. This is a great time to sample the offerings at some of the best restaurants … Continue reading
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Tagged bargains, New Jersey, restaurant week, vacation
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CAPE MAY RASPBERRY SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE for Donna B.
A recent Leith Hall b&b guest, Donna B., emailed me for two recipes for treats that we serve at afternoon tea. The first was Cape May bed and breakfast Gingerbread which was in an earlier post, and this is the … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, Cape May, dessert, dessert recipes, New Jersey, Victorian
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