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How to brew black loose leaf tea
- Always warm your teapot with hot
water before brewing. - Use one heaped teaspoon of tea
leaves for each person. - Do not over-boil water or the water will
lose oxygen and result in a bitter,
muddy brew. - Allow the tea to stand and brew for
three to six minutes according to the
leaf size. - Strain your leaves as you pour tea into
your cup.
- If you take your tea with milk, add the milk to your cup before pouring the tea. Milk,
never cream, is served with tea. Cream is too heavy for tea and belongs with
coffee. The milk is always served at room temperature, never cold, as it cools the
tea too quickly. Also, do not add milk to an herbal or green tea. - Avoid tea bags. They produce a lower quality of tea and usually consist of tea dust.
- Try not to add sugar to tea as it spoils the taste. However, if you do serve sugar,
loose sugar is for the Irish, and sugar cubes are an English matter. - Never serve lemon with milk. Lemon curdles the milk.
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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, Shea butter, Chantal teapots, Lomonosov teapots, tea
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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, Shea butter, Chantal teapots, Lomonosov teapots, tea
infusers, tea accessories, 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 >>
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How to brew green loose leaf tea
- When preparing by the cup, green tea can be used repeatedly - about 3 times
- The secret is to use water that is about 180’F or 80’C.
- Place 1 teaspoon in your cup, let the tea steep for about 3 minutes.
- Do not remove the leaves from the cup.
- Once the water level is low, add more water, and so on until the flavor of the tea
is exhausted. - Alternatively as with all top quality teas, scoop 2-4 teaspoons of tea into the
teapot, pour in boiling water that has been freshly drawn (previously boiled water
has lost most of its oxygen and therefore tends to be flat tasting), steep for 2-4
minutes (to taste), stir (virtually all the leaves will sink), pour into your cup but do
not add milk or sugar since green tea is enjoyed "straight-up."
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