The James Culverwell Cookery page.

Welcome to my top tips on preparing tea for hungry cricketers.  Like many men I am not experienced in making cricket teas, so I decided that this page would offer some guidance on how to make a cricket tea and some of the nifty short cuts I have found to get round those little cooking problems. 

So here we go.  Read these tips and remember to use them every time you are asked to make teas.

Food  Tips

To impress your club colleagues with how expensive the tea was to make, visit your local corner shop for all the ingredients.  For the same items you can pay at least 30% more than at your nearest superstore.  

Milk comes from cows but for convenience sake can be purchased ready made from shops.  

For cakes, please look up "Mr Kipling" in your local telephone directory.  There may be a few in the phone book so please ensure you telephone all of them to make sure you get the right one.  He will be happy to make some great tasting snacks for you at short notice.

Tomatoes have to be sliced otherwise they will not fit between slices of bread.

Tuna sandwiches are best left in the sun for at least three hours before serving.

Bread does not come pre-buttered.  Bread can however be purchased pre-sliced. 

Peanut butter and marmite are popular sandwich fillings, especially together.

Sandwiches are best made by placing a piece of bread butter side up on a flat board.  Place filling on bread and place another slice of bread butter side down on top of filling.  Do not get these in the wrong order.  This method is considerably easer than placing filling on one piece of bread then folding slice of bread in half.  Cut bread into quarters or halves.  Do not cut into soldiers.   

It is customary to serve beverages with cricket teas.  These can be hot for example tea or cold for example squash.  

Squash in various flavours is sold in supermarkets.  This should however not be poured directly into cups or glasses and needs water added first.  

Tea requires boiling water to be added to white bags with a powdery/leafy substance inside.  This should not be confused with substances that can be bought on street corners or nightclubs and a supermarket is recommended.  

Please ensure that an adult is present when you boil water.

Sausage rolls are an ideal accompaniment to sandwiches and the left over sausage meat from the eggs can be wrapped up in pastry to make sausage rolls.

James Culverwell

Basic Concepts

Sandwiches normally have something between slices of bread.  This is called the 'filling'

Cakes are sweet and are eaten after Sandwiches

Food has to be bought from a shop, grown or made fresh.