San Jose tea-lovers have lots of tea choices when procuring on-line. Summer season Pudding black tea from Whittard of Chelsea is a superb deal with to purchase on-line. Summer season pudding is a classic English dessert that’s nice for summer season as a result of it’s a no-bake deal with, a mixture of day-old bread, recent fruit, sugar and cream, so it doesn’t warmth up the home to make it.

Summer season Pudding tea mix is a berry-flavored black tea. The corporate web site describes it like this: “A cracker! Created as a result of blackcurrants and significantly the dessert ‘Summer season Pudding’ are Giles’ favorites. Combining the style of the most effective mushy fruits – strawberries, raspberries, redcurrant and blackcurrants – right into a tea mix simply appeared to develop naturally!” The substances are: Black tea, juniper berries, blackcurrants, blackberry leaves, redcurrants, flavouring. Web site brewing notes learn: “All the time drink calmly brewed with 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of leaves per 6-cup pot. Boil freshly drawn water, heat the pot first with a splash of sizzling water. Add the tea and pour on boiling water. Brew for 2-5 minutes. Don’t add milk.”

I discovered this tea to be have a really nice aroma and taste. The dry tea leaves are complete and medium-sized, barely twisted, combined with seen items of inexperienced raspberry leaves, and some juniper berries. I couldn’t detect any juniper within the taste or aroma of this tea, so I assume the juniper was in there for look. I additionally couldn’t detect the crimson and black currants within the taste or aroma, however I may scent raspberries and strawberries. The berry taste carries via into the brewed tea properly, not overpowering the tea. I by no means adopted the corporate suggestion of utilizing just one teaspoon of tea leaves to six cups of water; I used the extra customary 1 teaspoon to 1 to 2 cups of boiling water, and didn’t discover it too sturdy. I feel this tea would make a refreshing iced tea, as effectively.

Whittard of Chelsea is one in all England’s oldest and most established tea retailers, however there isn’t a Whittard’s vendor within the Bay Space. The closest supply is Annie’s Tea Time, a vendor based mostly in Southern California, which carries Whittard of Chelsea tea and different merchandise from the UK and ships them to clients all around the USA. Annie’s Tea Time sells a 4.4 ounce bundle of loose-leaf Summer season Pudding Tea for $13.50, however you can even get a small free pattern of the tea, with buy.

Copyright 2012, Elizabeth Urbach.

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