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pepper: Cup of tea (Tea)
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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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 15th, 2008 01:36 am (UTC)
Heh, it's a thought! "Earl Grey tea, hot." Although it's a wee bit flowery for him... I'm going to sleep on it.

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!

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