According to the Charleston Daily Mail Dr. Hassan Amjad, who is the organizer of the fifth annual Summertime Appalachian Tea Festival said ‘Tea bags are blasphemy, people who drink from tea bags have never tasted tea. We brew tea from real tea leaves.” Dr. Amjad, who is a cancer specialist in Beckley, also has a lifelong interest in herbal medicine and how people’s lifestyles influence their health. He touts the health benefits of tea to his patients and the public. “If you drink tea, you live longer. You have less cancer and heart disease,” he says. “If you change one…
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According to The Lonely Planet Magazine reading ‘Street Food Revolution’ by Richard Johnson (which is a guide to finding the best pavement cuisine in the UK and Ireland) is like walking through a food court where everything is delicious, distinctive and unusual. Nowadays you can find your burger van, fish and chip van as well as fashionable ‘Cup Cakes’ and even ‘Afternoon Tea’ joining in the list of possibles. To cement its new found importance to the nation, there’s a British Street Food Awards which is in its 2nd year and takes place from 9-11th September this year. The British…
Ingredients 175g/ Self Raising Flour 175g/ Caster Sugar 175g/ Flora or similar 1 Tablesp Baking Powder 3 Eggs (beaten) 2 Tablesp Milk Grated Rind of 2 Oranges ½ teasp Vanilla Extract Method Heat oven to 180C/Gas4/350F Place everything above into a mixing bowl and whisk for no more than 2 minutes. Pour into a greased or lined loaf tin Bake for approx 40-60 mins, or when your skewer comes out clean Topping 120g Caster Sugar Juice of the two Oranges Mix the sugar with the juice of the oranges and heat in pan until it forms a syrup. Make holes…
They think that around the 2nd or 3rd Century AD, the Mongolians and Tibetans learned to drink tea from the Chinese. Compressed cakes of dried tea from China were transported by camel and the drink became the national drink of both races. Some Turkish traders bartered for tea on the Mongolian borders in the late 6th Century. Trade with the Arab world started in the 5th Century and 6th Century AD but there is no proof that tea was amongst the goods sold until the reign of Kablai Khan in the 13th Century. During the 6th and 7th Century, the…
In 1773 American nationalists dump crates of tea from a British ship into the sea in protest over rising taxes imposed by the British colonists. Known today as the Boston Tea Party, the riot served as a catalyst for the American War of Independence. One of the most famous tea parties ever was held on December 16, 1773. This wasn’t your normal tea party with a group of ladies sitting around sipping tea and eating scones. The Sons of Liberty really knew how to make a splash when they threw a party
This book is all of £4 and worth every penny. Beautiful pictures get your taste buds wanting scones and cakes. They say, ‘most of us no longer make a point of sitting down properly with a cup of tea for a break in the afternoon, too often it’s a quick mug of tea with maybe a biscuit on the run’. This book has some simple suggestions on how to have family and friends over for an afternoon tea instead of the usual lunch. It will help you to decide on simple sandwiches, cakes or sweet bites and take the stress…
Do you fancy some free champagne with your afternoon tea? All you have to do is become a customer of www.afternoontea.co.uk and click on the link for free champagne. Palm Court, Langham Hotel The Langham Hotel in London is one of the venues offering it, from Monday to Thursday 1 – 31st August. The centre piece of the hotel is the dazzling Palm Court where you will take your afternoon tea. The Langham was awarded the Tea Guild’s ‘Top London Afternoon Tea’ award 2010. Rubens Hotel Another Hotel with this offer is Rubens, which lies at the heart of London’s…
On Sunday 28th & Monday 29th August 2011 – August Bank Holiday Weekend the newly restored Gyllyngdune Gardens in Falmouth is hosting its very first two-day Tea Festival and celebrating the gardens’ historic links to the nation’s favourite beverage. Since opening as a public Winter Garden in 1911, Gyllyngdune Gardens has hosted thousands of tea dances over the decades and was even once owned by the founderÂ’s son of the Horniman Tea Company. GyllyngduneÂ’s Visitor & Education Officer, Sarah Spiegler-Williams has been organising the event as part of the new programme of activities which will be hosted in the newly…
The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Society of Apothecaries in 1673 in order to promote the study of botany in relation to medicine, then known as the “physic” or healing arts. As the second oldest botanic garden in England it still fulfils the traditional functions of scientific research and plant conservation and undertakes to educate and inform as well as to provide the amenity of a walled “secret” garden in the heart of London. Its aims are: to demonstrate through its plantings and publications the range of species named or introduced to cultivation by a succession of distinguished…
In the 400-600Â’s demand for tea being used as a medicinal drink rose in China. Tea in Japan during this period was rare and expensive, and enjoyed most by high priests and the aristocracy. During 648-749 a Japanese monk ‘GyokiÂ’ planted the first tea bushes in 49 Buddhist temple gardens. Buddhism and tea devotion spread and the Japanese Buddhist Saint and Priest ‘SaichoÂ’ and monk ‘Kubo DaishiÂ’, brought tea seeds and cultivation and manufacturing tips back from China and planted them in the gardens in Japanese temples. Tea is first mentioned in the ancient texts as an offering. In the…
With everything ‘vintageÂ’ being very fashionable at the moment, it was no surprise to find that you can now hire vintage china for your wedding/party or event. Jo Mortimer-Bush runs ‘My Vintage DayÂ’ crockery-hire, which has a spectacular collection of cups and sauces, plates, tea pots and tea table requisites. She had vintage wedding china at her own wedding which gave her the idea to start the business. Most of her collection has been bought from auctions, antique fairs and car-boot sales. Most of her business has been built up by word of mouth and from her website www.myvintageday.co.uk They…
Ingredients 1 x Luxury Chocolate Swiss Roll (the more chocolaty the better) 2 x Chocolate flavoured Angel Delight 1 pint Semi-skimmed Milk 300 ml Double or Whipping Cream BaileyÂ’s Liquor 1 CadburyÂ’s flake 1 Tablesp Chocolate chips 1 strawberry Method Cut your swiss roll into 2” slices Line the bottom of your bowl with the swiss roll Pour over some baileyÂ’s liquor and press down with a fork (as much to moisten the pieces) Whip up your angel delight with your pint of semi-skimmed milk Pour it over your swiss roll mixture Whisk your cream until stiff Add your whipped…
The Great British Bake Off appears on our screens again next Tuesday on BBC2 at 8pm. Presenters Sue Perkins and Mel Gledroyc return with a new search for Britain’s best amateur baker. There’s a short list of 12 of the most ‘passionate and skilled’ hopefulls, whittled down from thousands of applicants. Over the next eight weeks, their ‘baking skills will be pushed to the limit’ as they bake everything from cakes and pies to bread and biscuits. Those who don’t make the grade will be sent packing!!!!! http://www.greatbritishbakeoff.com/
My daughter bought me an ‘afternoon teaÂ’ voucher as part of my Christmas present so today my husband and I went to enjoy our treat at the Brook Whipper In Hotel in Oakham, Rutland, www.brook-hotels.co.uk Oakham is a small market town with a host of things to do and famous for its private school. It has a picturesque castle and museum and a busy Friday market. It holds a British Bird Watching Fair from 19th August – 21st August which they call ‘the Glastonbury of the bird watching world, drawing 20,000 visitors a yearÂ’. It is only a few miles…
The Tea Cosy tea shop in Brighton www.theteacosy.co.uk is keeping up with the royals in all ways. The walls are decked with commemorative memorabillia and the menu hosts the likes of Queen Mother’s Cream tea to William and Harry’s Tea, see below. Menu William and Harry’s Tea A selection of homemade biscuits with a pot of tea for one. Beatrice and Eugenie’s Tea Cupcake with hot chocolate, cream and marshmallows. Charles and Camilla Tea Two pieces of toast with Pate or homemade preserve and a pot of tea for one. Princess Margaret Low Tea A piece of cake with a…