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Christmas Cocktail
Time to get the cocktail shakers out for Santa and the festivities!! Ingredients 5 unwaxed lemons 2 oranges 480g sugar 350ml golden rum 175ml apricot liqueur 150ml lemon juice 100ml orange juice 500ml of Earl on the Moor, brewed for 10-15 minutes Method Zest the lemons and oranges and put these and the sugar into…
Chai Brulee Tarts
Rich, creamy and spicy Portuguese tarts with Ceylon Chai. The double dosage of spices makes this a great pairing with Ceylon Black tea. Ingredients For the creme brulee: 560ml double cream 4 of our Ceylon Chai tea bags 50g fresh ginger, finely chopped 4 large Ceylon cinnamon sticks, broken into small bits 10 cardamon pods,…
English Afternoon Tea
A quick and easy guide to hosting a tea party. A traditional English afternoon tea party is essentially a filler between the midday and evening meal. Keep your British tea party as simple as possible so you have time and energy to enjoy it. Over complicating it just makes it really stressful. Where to Serve…
Women in Tea
The hardest thing to do for this piece by MiriamRodell for @WomensWeeklyMag is sending photographs of me. The hands which blend Ceylon tea, that’s needs no thinking about. Certainly not the tins that the tea blends are sold in. It’s the ones of me that seem to take ages! After much deliberation, humming and…
Ceylon Chai Cocktail
Sip your spice in our tea cocktail Ingredients 5g/1 tea bag of Ceylon Chai 200ml white rum/@Seedlip Spice 94 2 tsp lime juice 1 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp of ginger syrup 200ml @TwelveBelow Pear and Cardamon Garnish – with a stick of Ceylon cinnamon/float a star anise/wedge of orange Method Chai Infusion – Leave…
Quick Cocktail
The quickest and easiest tea cocktail to make. Use up that bit of tea sitting in the back of your tea cupboard. Ingredients 6g/2 tea bags of light green tea/jasmine green tea/white tea 400ml of filtered water, boiled 200ml @TwelveBelow Apple and Garden Mint Garnish – slices of cucumber Alcoholic version – add 2 shots…
Summer Punch
Overflowing bowls of summer tea punch to get the barbecue or summer party started. Fragrant and a drink from start to finish of any summer gathering. Tea cocktails can be made as alcoholic and non-alcoholic and I have given alternatives. Ingredients 3/4 tangerines, peeled and juice of 3 200g local runny honey 3g/1 tea bag…
English Lavender – Sparkling Fizz
June is the season for fields of lavender. Brew batches of lavender sparkling fizz as a mixer for your summer tea cocktails Ingredients 50 heads of fresh English Lavender flowers, cleaned, make sure the lavender has not been sprayed with insecticides and pesticides 300g caster sugar 100g sultanas, chopped 2 liters of freshly drawn filtered…
Earl on the Moor and Lavender Cordial
Lets levage the lavender in your Earl Grey/Earl on the Moor with a summer cordial. Ingredients 300ml freshly drawn and filtered water 100g caster sugar 50 heads/100g of fresh/dried lavender 10g/3 tea bags of Earl on the Moor Method In a saucepan, put the water and sugar and heat gently and stir until the sugar…