Tea Recipes

most grateful for Picwick Tea for sharing these great recipes :


Persian Tea

Ingredients:
• Teabags
• 80 grams sugar
• Peach slices
• Orange segments
• Rum
Set fresh water to boil (3-5 minutes). Add boiled water to tea and let stand 5 minutes. Remove teabags. Stir sugar into the tea and let the mixture cool to room temperature.

Prepare tall tea glasses with peach slices, orange segments and a splash of rum. Top off with ice cubes. Add tea.

Russian tea
Ingredients:
• Teabags
• Tablespoonshoney
• Cloves
• 1/3 cinnamon stick
• Juice of one lemon and 2 oranges
In a teapot, add a small amount of hot water a pot, covering the bottom. Add the honey, cloves and cinnamon stick. Heat for 7 minutes. Add the teabags and boiled water. Let the tea stand 5 minutes. While stirring, add the lemon and orange juice. Pour this strong, flavourful drink through a sieve and into a glass. Serve immediately.

Orange Juice Tea
Ingredients:
- 3 oranges
- Half cinnamon stick
- 4 cloves
- 3 tablespoons loose tea or 3 teabags

Place the 4 cloves into a well-cleaned orange. Add the orange and the half cinnamon stick to one litre of water and boil. Let stand for 15 minutes. Sieve the water and add 3 tablespoons (12 grams) of loose tea in a cup-sized tea-strainer, or add three teabags, and let stand 5 minutes. Remove the tea strainer or teabags.

Welcoming drink
Mix with Rooibos, with strawberries (app. 1 litre)
Ingredients:
• 3 Rooibos tea bags
• 1 litre of boiling water
• 250 g fresh (or defrosted) strawberries
• Cane sugar to your taste
• Sparkling wine like, for example, Moscato d’Asti
Boil the water and let it cool for a couple of minutes. Then, mix it with tea, cane sugar and strawberries which are lightly mashed in the jug with a spoon. The tea should draw for at least 30 minutes. Cool down and add sparkling wine to your taste. To be served in a bowl or glass jug.
African Cooler
Spicy drink for cosiness (app. 2 litres)
Ingredients:
• 3 Rooibos tea bags
• 0.5 litre of water
• 1 stick of cinnamon
• A couple of cloves
• A bit of nutmeg
• 1.5 litres of orange juice
Boil the tea together with the spices for ten minutes and let it cool. Add orange juice and serve it with ice cubes in a bowl or a jug.