I have my own tea! See, there's a tea shop in Covent Garden where you can mix your own tea blend, from a range of ingredients (I think I've mentioned this before, actually). I went there this evening with A, and made myself a blend, for which I'll have to come up with a name, but it's kind of a variation of Earl Grey. It is two parts Keemun (China black) tea, one part Ceylon, with a sprinkle of jasmine flowers, mallow blossom, and sunflower petals, a few drops of lemon oil, and a couple of sprays of bergamot oil. And it's REALLY NICE! It's not too floral (that may sound like a lot of ingredients, but I was quite sparing with them, and didn't go mad and put bits of apple and other whatnots in - which I had the option to do), and it brews to a lovely warm reddish-brown shade, just like my new icon, and I think it's better without milk, with all that citrus flavour, and yay!
*does tea dance*
I might make it for presents for people. And maybe do a green tea version. Or a Rooibos caffiene-free version. Now if I can just think of a nice name for it... something classy, not wacky... Damn Twinings for already having taken the name Lady Grey, that would've been perfect.
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I need a tea icon. For now, coffee will have to do.
Tea mixing is rather mysterious to me. I can't imagine how people think to put things together and have it coming out right. I suppose it's a bit like mixing perfume.
Green teas are about the only tea I drink. I generally don't care for black teas at all. Hmm, no that I'm thinking about it, a pot of tea pretty good right now. Thanks, Pepper. : )
Oh, yeah, I'll upload those Nick Cave albums and a mix of gothy stuff for you some time this weekend.
They actually made the tea mixing pretty easy - they had just two types of black tea (one strong, one light), one green tea, and some Rooibos (caffeine-free) tea. Then around them they had things like ginger, apple, lemongrass, rose petals, etc, and a shelf of scented oils - peach oil, lemon oil, and so on.
They also had some recipes - I didn't follow a recipe, but I did look at which tea they used for Earl Grey (the two-parts-Keemun-to-one-Ceylon bit). I was tempted to mix green and black tea, just to try it, but I wanted to make something I was more sure was drinkable.
And, thank you!
Since you said Lady Grey would be perfect, and it's a variation on Earl, and Pepper's delight should really be Sara's delight but doesn't sound right...how about Lady Sara?
*grins*
But the tea sounds lovely--I'm personally a wimp about teas and generally go for the herbal non-tea ones. Like peppermint.
:-)
I love it! Henceforth, this tea is known as Lady Sara's Blend. :D I shall have to bring some with me to D*C.
:-)