Tea for one
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kellinatorI've always loved tea. I was raised drinking sweet tea pretty much all the time, to the point where when we went to Wisconsin for a trip when I was eight, I was confused when nobody was drinking iced tea. Hot tea was a habit I picked up in high school, now that I think about it, possibly because it seemed like something a mildly snooty Anglophile might do to protest living in small-town Tennessee. My family had the standard Hank Hill reaction: "The girl ain't right."
Lately I've been drinking a lot of tea and trying new teas, which is a lot of fun. I really like toasted mate, green and white teas, and I'm trying to develop a taste for rooibos (South African red tea). I love going to Teavana (http://store.yahoo.com/teavana/) for the Mate Carnival (toasted mate with chocolate notes -- called "the coffee lover's tea") and I'm dying to try some of the more exotic teas from the Republic of Tea (http://www.republicoftea.com/). I drink a lot of their Apple Blossom Green Tea.
Who else likes tea? Recommendations?
Lately I've been drinking a lot of tea and trying new teas, which is a lot of fun. I really like toasted mate, green and white teas, and I'm trying to develop a taste for rooibos (South African red tea). I love going to Teavana (http://store.yahoo.com/teavana/) for the Mate Carnival (toasted mate with chocolate notes -- called "the coffee lover's tea") and I'm dying to try some of the more exotic teas from the Republic of Tea (http://www.republicoftea.com/). I drink a lot of their Apple Blossom Green Tea.
Who else likes tea? Recommendations?
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Date: 2003-01-30 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-30 01:34 pm (UTC)A basic black tea blend (like Luzianne, Lipton or Tetley) is concentrate-brewed. Then hot water is mixed with a large amount of sugar (making sure the sugar completely dissolves), the concentrate is added to the sugar-water, and additional water is added. Tea is stored in the fridge and served over ice.
Ideally, there is enough sugar that small children will be hyper for days. And no, it doesn't taste the same to open a packet of sugar into a cold glass of unsweetened tea. ;)
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Date: 2003-01-30 02:08 pm (UTC)My husband always gets strange looks when waitresses when they say "no, we don't have sweet tea, but you can put sugar in it" and he responds "yeah, there's basic chemistry for you - put sugar into something ice cold and expect it to melt!"
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Date: 2003-01-30 02:34 pm (UTC)