Creating the Good Cricket Tea with Recipes

June 29, 2026

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Creating the Good Cricket Tea – Concepts and recipes for creating the right cricket tea on a restricted finances, and with simply two individuals

Image: A village cricket match in progress on the Suffolk/Essex border by artist Steven Binks stevenbinks.co.uk

Picture: A village cricket match in progress on the Suffolk/Essex border by artist Steven Binks stevenbinks.co.uk

With Ideas from Cricketers and Cricket Tea Helpers and Bakers

I come from a household who both love to observe cricket, or who used to play cricket. And, one in every of my oldest and closest mates was an everyday “Cricket Mum Cricket Tea Helper and Baker”.

When my daughter was at college, she usually went away with her faculty cricket group and was accountable for placing the scores up on the scoreboard, with the principles of cricket that she needed to study fairly shortly, in addition to not falling asleep on a heat, summer season’s day!

Though worldwide and county cricket is at all times within the sports activities information, and on the TV, it’s village cricket that’s my favorite to observe….the sound of willow on leather-based, sunny days on a inexperienced pitch, deck chairs with spectators, and the anticiptation of the cricket tea.

Nevertheless, to get again to the primary motive I’m scripting this put up right this moment, concepts create the right cricket tea. Within the first occasion I turned to my pal Sarah, who hosted many a cricket tea, and with only one helper alongside her.

Though I had a good suggestion what can be be served on a cricket tea, it was good to speak by it together with her. It appeared that sandwiches, truffles, recent fruit, crisps, tea and sqaush have been high of the listing for what to make and serve, with further savouries equivalent to sausage rolls.

I additionally had some wonderful ideas from my daughter’s brother-in-law who performs cricket – with a few amusing commets, “NO ready-salted crisps” and “ensure that there’s a good ratio of squash to water”! He additionally stated that it was essential to supply recent fruit.

Picture: Room Forty

I hope that my suggestions and recipe concepts beneath will present some inspiration, in case you are within the village cricket catering rota, or you’re catering for a big household celebration. The finances that most individuals appear to be working with, given that almost all issues are home-made, is between £40 and £50.

Sarah used to have a £20 finances, and the opposite helper was given £20 too, for a complete finances of £40; she stated this roughly lined the whole lot, however as she insisted on utilizing butter, and never vegetable unfold, she generally went over finances.

I can be sharing Cricket Pavilion Tea Recipes over the following few weeks too, so do preserve popping again to see what’s new. First up on my Cricket Pavilion Tea Recipes, can be Sarah’s Cricket Tea BLT Sandwiches, which she at all times made, as per her son Tom’s request!

Ideas, Concepts and Recipes to Create the Good Cricket Tea

Planning

Contact the opposite helpers and bakers beforehand, and resolve what every of you’ll make and produce.
Make certain one in every of you buys the milk!
Attempt to bake forward of time – fruit truffles particularly might be made a number of days prematurely, and sponge truffles might be made the day earlier than, or two days earlier than and stored within the fridge, then crammed and iced on the morning of the match.
Scones freeze nicely, so might be made forward of time too. Defrost them on the morning of the match.
Ensure you have loads of time to arrange – it ALWAYS takes longer than you assume.
Make certain the urn is crammed and turned on as quickly as you arrive.
Take all of the implements you want with you, equivalent to knives, reducing boards and takeaway containers.
Don’t neglect to test there are sufficient teabags, espresso, sugar and sqaush within the pavilion.

A Trio of Afternoon Tea Sandwich Fillings

Sandwich Concepts

Cheese and Onion
Cheese and Pickle
Egg Mayonnaise (Egg & Cress)
Ham and Tomato
Ham and Cheese
BLT
Coronation Rooster
Membership

Instructed Fundamentals Purchasing Checklist (Not for House Baking)

4 loaves of bread, 2 x white and a pair of x Wholmeal or Granary
1 tub of margarine or spreadable butter
4 pints semi-skimmed milk
2 sharing luggage of crisps
Contemporary fruit equivalent to bananas, grapes, melon and strawberries (when in season)
2 to three packs of ham (about 20 to 30 slices)
Massive packet of cheese
6 tomatoes
Half a dozen eggs
1 jar of mayonnaise OR salad cream
2 packs of ready-made Coronation hen (if not making it at residence)
1 jar of Branston pickle or different comparable pickle
Savouries, equivalent to cocktail sausage rolls, mini scotch eggs (enable 2 per individual) and mini pork pies (enable 1 per individual, lower in half)
Prepared made candy baked items, equivalent to jam tarts (24), chocolate rolls (24) and jaffa truffles (2 x packing containers)