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Drink a cup of Bee Tea while you enjoy reading A Single Thread by Marie Bostwick! (It would also be fun to serve this at a Quilting Bee, don't you think?)
Bee Tea
2 tablespoons loose black tea
2 tablespoons loose green tea
1 tablespoon loose chamomile tea
2 tablespoons honey
Lemon quarters or whole milk
1. Place the teas in a teapot and cover with about 8 cups boiling water.
1. Place the teas in a teapot and cover with about 8 cups boiling water.
2. Let steep 4 minutes and then remove the tea.
3. Add honey and stir well.
4. Serve immediately with lemon quarters or milk (but not both).
from The Quilter's Kitchen by Jennifer Chiaverini
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Are you a tea drinker? Do you have a favorite kind of tea? Do you prefer a mug or a fancy china tea cup? Do you take cream and sugar or lemon? Please respond in the comments section below. Inquiring minds what to know!
You might also enjoy my previous blog post:
Yes, I am an avid tea drinker. You could probably say I drink too much of it! My current favorite tea is called "Scottish Blend" and I order it online from teadog.com. It is supposed to be blended for Scottish water, but it tastes good with mine. Maybe that's why so many Scots-Irish people settled this area a couple hundred years ago. I don't own any teacups...all mugs! Nope, nothing added to my tea, not even sugar.
ReplyDeleteI checked out the website, June. I may have to order some Scottish Blend for myself. Everyone gave it such good reviews.
DeleteI do like tea. My hubby is a tea purist and he makes us jasmine green tea every morning with the water at the perfect temperature (yes he uses a thermometer). I like it with nothing added and take my thermos cup full. Sometimes I will get a "chai tea lattea" made with soy milk and no foam from the local coffee shop. It is made with a tea bag in steamed soy milk. They know me at the coffee shop (and I don't drink coffee at all). Right now I am a drinking a cup of cold Organic Throat Coat® tea from Traditional Medicines with lemon and honey added. Yes, I have a cold and a cough. I am not a fan of fruit teas at all. I do own teacups, inherited from my mother, but I never use them. My DD # 3 recently asked if she can have some of them when she moves into her currently being constructed house. She said "and I will actually use them". :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tea is Earl Gray. I take it with one sugar cube and milk. When my tutoring students come to my home after school, I often have tea with them. It is not always fun to spend time in tutoring when other children are out playing, so I have sugar cubes, cow creamers, and fun teapots and teacups to make it a special time. I once offered a teenage boy cocoa while I was having my tea. He said, "I'll drink tea with you." And we did, everytime he came. His mother had set a limit of 3 sugar cubes for him, but that did not deter him from asking EVERY SINGLE TIME how many sugar cubes he could have!
ReplyDeleteMmmmm, I am definitely a tea drinker. Love darjeeling, assam, and oolong, among others. Just a few grains of sugar is all I need and most of the time don't even bother with sugar. When my neice had a little quilting group meeting at her house, at the end of their 'season'(farm country) I gave a little tea for her and her friends and showed and talked about the half dozen or so 'tops' that I have that my great-grandmother made. I served darjeeling, oolong and a market spice tea along with all the other goodies that one must have to have a proper 'tea'.
ReplyDeletei'm a big tea drinker! gotta have a cup first thing in the morning and drink it all day long, hot and cold. prefer it to soda, especially with lemon in it. no sugar or honey for me! i like just regular old lipton's brand, but i also like english breakfast, earl grey, and oolong. not fond of the flavored teas. i drink my tea from a mug, not china, just because i am really a clumsy person.
ReplyDeletei do not drink coffee. i like the smell of it, but never could stand the taste of it. and when i was pregnant i couldn't stand the smell, either!
Japan is a tea culture. When you visit a friend, you are served tea in a handle-less mug as soon as you sit down. At meals you get one kind of tea at the beginning and another at the end. You can tell the seasons by what you are served ... hot or cold.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first arrived, we had only a small space-heater/kerosene stove. You put a tea kettle on top to put moisture back into the air. No money for coffee, so I drank tea. (Japanese green tea) After a few cups, I can walk up one wall, across the ceiling, and down the other wall! I can drink coffee all day with no effect but tea... herbals will do ... and there are some good ones out there. No sugar. I am sweet enough. Milk? Yes, please. (well, my coffee is probably half milk).
Julie, you are so funny! My daughter drinks green tea strong enough to cut it with a knife! When I first tried it, I thought it tasted like spinach-water, and unintentionally offended our Japanese houseguest. I've never really acquired a taste for green tea.
DeleteAfter a long day @ work, we are now on our laptops, checking email, FB, blogs, etc., drinking green tea from my matching Vera Bradley Pink Pinwheels teapot & china mug. A perfect companion to finishing up my day. I use Stevia in my tea as a sweetener. The lemon is reserved for the plain ol' Liton, but not tonight.
ReplyDeleteerrr "Lipton"
DeleteLove my tea. Hot tea in the winter. Iced tea year round. No sweetener. No milk. I know hot tea tastes better in a china cup, but I usually prefer a big mug of tea. Lemon or lime in my iced tea. I prefer varieties of black tea.
ReplyDeleteI normally will have one glass of iced tea midday, but I do enjoy a cup of hot tea while sitting by the fireplace on a cold, snowy day - reading, of course! I only use mugs, but there is a tea house where I live in CO, and it's fun to go there and choose your own tea cup to use from a variety on the shelf. You can choose a different one each time! It looks like I may be reading by the fire this weekend according to the forecast!
ReplyDeleteYes, decaf/herbal teas are all I can drink anymore, since I can't have coffee. I like almost any kind of herbal.
ReplyDeleteI didn't start drinking tea until I went to Polytechnic at 18. Everyone else drank either tea or coffee and I felt left out wanting orange or lemon squash. I used to have 4 sugars as I didn't really enjoy the taste. I'm still not a big tea drinker and now have green tea with lemon. Although I normally make it in a mug, I do prefer the taste of tea from in a china, made in a tea pot.
ReplyDeleteI have lots of favorite teas, depending on the mood I'm in. I'm a 'cheater' I use a 12 cup coffee pot to make my tea in. I drink about a pot a day when the weather is cold. I use insulated mugs with lids, since I carry my mug all over the house with me, even in the car. My father started me on tea. We'd have 'tea party's' when I was growing up. Constant Comment tea, with cinnamon toast. I also collect teapots.
ReplyDeletei love tea and my favorite right now is fava green cinnamon spice. it is awesome. i have a ceramic tea cup with lid but i prefer my to go cup because it is insulated and keeps the tea hotter longer. i probably have 50 different teas right now that i drink, there are so many different types. i drink 3-5 cups a day along with fresh water. i'm a firm believer of the healing power of tea.
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