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Making tea for a crowd can be a daunting task, especially when you want to serve hot tea and keep the event somewhat formal. How can we make this easier for you? The simple answer: we can cater your event! But that’s not always an option if you don’t live in Omaha, or if you just want the joy of preparing and serving it yourself. Here are a few tips on how to make tea for a crowd easier on you and on your guests.

Keep It Hot

With a party of more than 8 people, planning ahead is essential. And although attention to detail is important for a successful tea party (i.e. the sandwiches, desserts, napkins, teacups), tea is the most important element. It shouldn’t be treated like an afterthought. One of the easiest ways to serve the tea and ensure that it will be hot is to make it no more than an hour ahead of time and pour it into glass-lined air pots. Just make sure that the pots haven’t been used for coffee recently, or your tea will end up tasting like coffee.

Give Guests Options

Another option is to make individual tea bags ahead of time and have the water boiling as your guests take their seats. This way, you can offer them a more diverse variety of teas. Make sure you provide cups with saucers if you go this route as your guests will need a place to put the tea bags after their tea is brewed. I prefer this method, but it can be a little time consuming on the party preparation end.

Use Your Favorite Teapots

Finally, you can do away with all of the tea bags and air pots by making a tea concentrate ahead of time. Simply make your tea as you normally would, but double the strength of it. Let it come to room temperature, and have water boiling as guests arrive. It would be wise to experiment with ratios of hot water to tea before you serve it to your guests. This is a fun way to serve the tea because you can easily use your favorite and fancy teapots.

Tea parties are fun, and they don’t have to be difficult to plan. Give it a try! Let us know how it goes in the comments.