Day: June 20, 2013

Baking, Roasting, Frying — Tea Gets the Heat Treatment

On By Little Yellow TeapotIn Preparing Tea and Herbals4 Comments

Tea leaves undergo various processing steps, and an important one in the drying step. It “cures” the tea for sale, that is, halts any further oxidation or moisture loss and can even add flavor to the tea. Higher curing temperature can add honeyed-like sweetness or smoky caramel to the aroma. The curing temperature is also …

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Tea, Canadian Style

On By William I. Lengeman IIIIn Resources and InformationLeave a comment

As far as I can tell, when it comes to matters of tea, our good neighbors to the north are much like us here in the United States. In the overall scheme of things we Yanks don't really drink all that much tea. Our consumption of just over a pound per person per year ranks …

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