Chai Tea Recipe
Makes 2 cups
2 cups filtered water
4 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick (or break in half)
4 cloves
2 to 3 peppercorns (optional)
1 cup of milk
2 teaspoons honey (to taste, or use sugar to taste)
1 tablespoon loose black tea
1. Pour 2 cups filtered water into a pot and bring to a boil. As the water heats, add cardamom pods, cinnamon stick, cloves and peppercorns.
2. Once the water and spice mixture comes to a boil, reduce it to simmer and keep at the low heat, covered, for 10 minutes. Add milk and honey. Return the mixture to a simmer. Add black tea.
Just Their Cup of Tea: British Cultivate Their Own
By Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 23, 2005; Page A16
TRURO, England — Beyond the four-mile-long driveway, and the shaded path named “Lady’s Walk” and the soft fields of purple rhododendron and grazing Holstein cows, Jonathan Jones walked among waist-high rows of rich green plants. With loving precision, he plucked off two perfect green leaves and a bud and held them proudly in his hand.
“English tea should be grown on English soil,” he said, running his fingers over what he called a victory for horticulture and also for British culture: the first commercial crop of tea ever grown in this tea-mad nation.
The Collectible Teapot & Tea Calendar Product Review
This review was written by Cheryl Lewis - BellaOnline’s Coffee & Tea Editor.
The Collectible Teapot & Tea Calendar has been available every year since 1996. It’s developed quite a following and after seeing the 2006 version, I can certainly see why!
Now, use your mobile to make your ‘tea and coffee’!
The online newspaper www.newkerala.com released this article recently, something you might react to with more incredulity than interest. Although convenience is always something worth adding to our daily lives, there are certain theraputic effects to just doing things yourselves, and the process of boiling water and brewing tea can be very relaxing. See what you think of this new idea:
Next time you fancy a cup of tea you really don’t need to make a tiring face, as a kettle manufacturing company has bridged the gap between you and your first sip of the refereshment by collaborating with a mobile phone company to create the world’s first satellite kettle. Now, just tap out a text message and the job’s half done.
Perfection in a pot
Ceramicist Teresa Chang is well known for her line of handmade dinnerware. Glazed in the palest tones of pumpkin, ginger, celadon and cream, her modern designs have been featured in the pages of such magazines as O, Elle Decor, InStyle, Martha Stewart Living, and Lucky.
But recently, Chang set herself a new challenge in clay: building a better teapot.
“Most teapots don’t work very well,” said Chang, 40, who works out of a studio near Chinatown and sells her pottery through her Web site, www.teresachang.com. “They dribble, or they’re hard to pick up, or the lid falls off.”
Collect a little teapot
Somewhere in the world it’s tea time, right now, depending on location and time zone.
Drinking tea has been a pleasure for thousands of years and began in China where a talented emperor, Shen Nung, is said to have discovered the beverage while on a visit to a distant region of the land.
Legend has it that he ordered all water be boiled before consumption. When the group stopped for a rest and the water had been boiled, some leaves from the above tree dropped into the hot water and produced a dark brown coloration. Curiosity invited him to taste the hot mixture and his lordship was infatuated by it. True or not, the story has merit.
