It is amazing how versatile you can be with Darjeeling Tea. You can ice it, spice it, cream it, punch it, even eat it. You can win friends with it and lose weight with it. But always, you drink your health with it.
Below are a
selection of suggestions. Try a few with pure Indian Darjeeling Tea.
Remember, Darjeeling is the exotic one, the 'champagne' of teas.
Hot
Tea
1. Take fresh
water from the cold tap and boil.
2. Warm teapot by rinsing out with
hot water.
3. Put one teaspoonful of tea leaf for each cup into
teapot.
4. Pour boiling water into it. Cover and wait for three
minutes.
5. Pour liquid tea from the teapot into cup through a
strainer.
6. Add milk / sugar to taste.
Iced
Tea
1. Take fresh
water from the cold tap and boil.
2. Put two teaspoonsful of tea
into teapot for each person to get strong brew.
3. Pour in boiling
water. Cover teapot and wait for at least five minutes.
4. Fill
three-fourths of a large glass tumbler with ice cubes. Pour tea from the
teapot. Add sugar syrup and sliced lemon to taste, but no milk. You can
add a sprig of mint.
5. Cool for a few minutes and imbibe straight
or through a straw.
Lemon
Tea
A tempter at
all times ! Into a piping hot cup of tea, add a few drops of lemon (not
milk) and sugar to taste, stir, and sip in the goodness of tea with the
richness of lemon.
Hot
Spiced Afternoon Tea
4 pints water
| 4 oz. sugar
|
1/2 level tsp. whole
cloves
| 1/4 pint Orange Juice Or squash Juice of 2 lemons
|
1/2 a stick of cinnamon
| Cinnamon sticks to serve
|
1 oz. tea
| |
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Add the spices to the water and bring to the
boil. Pour onto the tea and allow to brew for 5 minutes. Stir, strain
onto the sugar and stir until dissolved. Add the fruit juices. To reheat
before serving (if necessary) place over a low heat-do not simmer or
boil. Serve with cinnamon sticks.
Sufficient for 12 people.
Tea
Fruit Cup
4 oz. sugar
| 1/4 pint lemon squash
|
2 pints water
| 1/4 pint pineapple
Squash
|
1/4 pint strong fresh
tea, strained
| 1 small bottle lemonade
|
1/4 pint Fruit Syrup
(e.g. rose hip)
|
12 fresh or canned
cherries
|
1/4 pint orange squash
|
2
bananas, sliced Ice
|
Boil the sugar and 1/4 pint water together
for 5 minutes. Add the cooled tea, the rest of the water, the fruit
syrup and fruit squashes. Chill and when ready to serve add the other
ingredients and the ice.
Sufficient for 12 people.
Tea
Punch
1/2 pint strong tea
| 2 small bottles ginger ale
|
6 oz. sugar
| 11 large bottle
lemonade
|
1/2 pint
orange squash
| 1 orange, sliced
|
4
tbsps. lemon juice
|
|
Put the hot tea in a bowl, add the sugar and
stir until dissolved. Add the orange squash and lemon juice and strain.
Chill. Just before serving mix in the ginger ale, lemonade and orange
slices. Sufficient for 12 people.
Tea Ice
Cream
For making 2 lbs. of tea ice cream
|
(a) Dry tea (with good
flavour) 2 oz
| (d) Fresh milk 2
lbs
|
(b) Refined sugar
1 lb
| (e) Water 10 oz 1
|
(c) Arrowroot or
cornflour 1 oz
|
|
1. Heat water and remove quickly from fire
when boiling. Rinse out teapot with hot water and put in tea leaves.
Pour boiling water into teapot. Infuse for 8 to10 minutes. Strain off
infusion and keep aside.
2. Boil milk. Next, blend sugar with arrowroot (or
cornflour) thoroughly and add lo boiled milk. Let mixture simmer for
about10 minutes stirring continuously to avoid lumps. Remove from fire,
add tea infusion, stir and freeze.
Tea
Jelly
2 lemons
| 3/4 pint
(approx.)
|
1 pkt.
lemon jelly
| freshly brewed tea
|
Whipped cream to
decorate Grate the skins of the lemons finely. Place the jelly in a
measure and make up to 1 pint with freshly brewed tea. Stir until
dissolved, then cool. When it is slightly thickened stir in the grated
lemon peel and pour into a wetted 1-pint mould or into individual
moulds. Decorate with cream.