75th Anniversary Fox Meadow’s Governors’ Tea

Helen Couch readies the candles for the Club’s festive seventy-fifth anniversary tea

The Governors, Tea is an annual event that takes place in April.

Tradition dictates that no recipe be printed for the punch served at the event and instructions for the punch are handed down from president to president; and theoretically, therefore, the only way to get the recipe is to work one’s way up through the Board of Governors.

However, presidents have been noted to be using bottles of champagne, Cointreau, and brandy in concocting the mixture. There is suspicion, too, that liberties are taken from time to time with the formula.

Ollie Kingsbury says every president uses what he wants in the recipe, but that his was the best, attributable to the classical caloric count of imported champagne.