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Tea Chronicles: How to brew Ice / cold Tea?

Tea Chronicles: How to brew Ice / cold Tea?

Remember to make the perfect chilled glass of Ice Tea, it is of utmost importance that the tea leaf used is of good quality. No amount of addition of flowers, fruits, flavors can rectify that which has gone wrong at the source. Hence opt wisely and get ready to buy loose leaf tea.

Once you have the tea, measure 1 litre of water. Heat it until the bubbles come to the side of the pan or its 95 degree Centigrade. Add 9 grams of the Tea leaf / infusion to the...


Tea Chronicles: Understand it is Tea & not Potpourri!

Tea Chronicles: Understand it is Tea & not Potpourri!

My dear friends, countrymen, tea lovers, tea enthusiasts, remember when the thought knocks on your door to entice you into making yourself a cup of tea or entering a tea salon or a tea bar to have a cup of the two leaf and a bud, do remind yourself whether you would like to have the cup of tea to soothe the mind, to awaken yourself, to dream and drift or merely to write, read or hold close as a companion. If the thought lingers that the cup should heal the body and soothe the soul, then do understand one...


Tea Chronicles: Diffence between Tea, Infusion, Tisane.

Tea Chronicles: Diffence between Tea, Infusion, Tisane.

Did you know Tea can be machine made and handmade. Most of the areas in India do not use machine to pluck the Tea leaves. Early morning, the tea pluckers walk through the tea bushes to find the way and pluck the tea leaves nimbly, seeing, discerning what is meant to be plucked and what can still be left behind either to grow or ignore. There are some areas in Assam and Kangra that do have machines to pluck the leaves. 
Once the...