 |
 |
About Camille's Tea:
Camille's Tea, based in the San Antonio, Texas area, offers a wide variety of gourmet teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green
teas, herbal teas, decaffeinated teas, decaf teas, caffeine free teas, and iced teas, and lavender, Time & Again Shea butter, Chantal teapots,
Lomonosov teapots, tea infusers, tea accessories, Aroma Naturals candles, Bearington Bears, tea linens, neck warmers, Herbal Concepts
slippers and eye pacs, and Pre de Provence bath and body products. We also feature multiple tea of the month clubs. Read more >>
Camille's Tea, based in the San Antonio, Texas area, offers a wide variety of gourmet teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green
teas, herbal teas, decaffeinated teas, decaf teas, caffeine free teas, and iced teas, and lavender, Time & Again Shea butter, Chantal teapots,
Lomonosov teapots, tea infusers, tea accessories, Aroma Naturals candles, Bearington Bears, tea linens, neck warmers, Herbal Concepts
slippers and eye pacs, and Pre de Provence bath and body products. We also feature multiple tea of the month clubs. Read more >>
| To pay by check or money order, call 210-887-4312 or 210-241-0890 or email camille@camillestea.com. |
Country of Origin: Sri Lanka
Region: Nuwara Eliya, Dimbula, and Uva
Shipping Port: Colombo/Sri Lanka
Grade: FP - Flowery Pekoe
Altitude: 5600 - 6400 feet above sea level
Manufacture Type: Orthodox
Cup Characteristics: Good body but not overpowering with satisfying full tea flavor notes.
Infusion: Coppery bright - especially enticing with milk
Ingredients: Premium black tea.
Information: Today the habit of tea drinking is inexorably linked to the British despite the
fact that the British were fairly late on the tea scene in historical terms. Ironically the first
mention of tea in English literature is a translation of a Dutchman’s travels to the east.
Tea was first brought to England via Holland on Dutch ships. Since tea was becoming a
popular beverage the British government became quite incensed that a tiny nation such
as the Netherlands would control the shipment of tea to the UK. In 1651 the British
government passed the Navigation Acts which forbade the importation of any products on
non-British ships. Traders and Dutchmen, being resourceful continued the trade in the
usual manner but for one little wrinkle; the tea was transshipped in Holland onto British
ships!
Early in British life tea was known as a health beverage and claimed all sorts of curative
powers. In the 1650’s, Garway’s Coffee House proclaimed, “Tea makes the body active
and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome; preserving perfect health until
extreme Old Age.”
Afternoon tea was the invention of Anna, wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford. At that time
custom dictated only two planned meals per day: a hearty breakfast and a late evening
dinner. Anna in a effort to ease the “sinking feeling” began instructing her servants to
prepare tea and cakes in the late afternoon. Thus began a fashionable habit which still
exists today.
Hot tea brewing method: Bring freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil. Place 1
teaspoon of tea for each cup into the teapot. Pour the boiling water into the teapot. Cover
and let steep for 3-7 minutes according to taste (the longer the steeping time the stronger
the tea). Add milk and sugar to taste.
Iced tea brewing method: (to make 1 quart): Place 5 teaspoons of tea into a teapot or
heat resistant pitcher. Pour 1 1/4 cups of freshly boiled water over the tea. Steep for 5
minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the tea into your serving
pitcher straining the leaves. Add ice and top-up the pitcher with cold water. Garnish and
sweeten to taste. Please note that this tea may tend to go cloudy or "milky" when poured
over ice; a perfectly normal characteristic of some high quality black teas and nothing to
worry about!
|
