By A.C. Cargill
Not every tea makes an acceptable chilled (iced) tea. When cooled, some teas become bitter or just downright make your teeth hurt with every sip. Other teas cry out loudly for milk and sweetener but don’t taste good chilled, according to my personal experiments. Fear not, though. There are plenty of teas out [...]
By William I. Lengeman III
As iced tea season looms on the horizon, visitors to these pages have already run across a few articles that take a look at various facets of this warm weather favorite. Of course, the best part of the iced tea experience is drinking mass quantities of it - particularly when you [...]
By A.C. Cargill
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The Subject: Bohemian Raspberry Green Tea from The English Tea Store.
Rating:
Water temperature: 180° F
Steeping time: 3 minutes
Tea type: Green
Scents, flavorings, etc.: Raspberry
Aroma, dry: Strong raspberry with pleasant [...]
By A.C. Cargill
Warmer weather is coming to the Northern Hemisphere as Spring cranks into full gear. That means one thing: Iced Tea! You can settle for the bottled stuff and take your chances on what’s in it. Better yet, make your own — a tradition since the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 when tea merchant [...]
Tea is a drink, a ritual and a ceremony that’s been uniting people around the world since the first tea bush was discovered in China about 5,000 years ago. So let’s take a quick trip around the world and see how different cultures enjoy their tea.
For many years the Chinese Empire dictated how tea crops [...]
The question is, “Are you really in that big of a hurry that you cannot boil water for a cup of tea?”
Developed in the 1930s instant tea did not find a commercial application until the 1950s. Soluble teas are certainly convenient, and there is heated debate about whether that is worth sacrificing the [...]
PEACH AND PEPPERMINT ICE TEA
1 1/4 (lightly packed) cups fresh
peppermint leaves (from 3 bunches)
3 ripe peaches, pitted, 2 coarsely
chopped, 1 very thinly sliced
4 cups ice cubes, crushed
