BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Tea How do you take your tea?

How do you like your tea? How many cups a day? What time each day?

w/cream and sugar?
straight up?

herbal only?

green w/honey?

What's in your cup?


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

Herbal tea with a spoonful of New Zealand (Manouka) honey!!!! Ednamay

Ednamay, that sounds very relaxing,and healthful.Can you tell us about New Zealand manouka honey? Are you from New Zealand?


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

I like my tea strong and with cream and sugar---black tea and Earl Grey best. But if it is a floral tea like jasmine or an herbal tea I prefer it with honey and or a splash of lemon--I LOVE peppermint tea with lemon! Some of the new herbal combinations with vanilla and caramel and chai I take with cream too. OOO there is an almond flavor that I use cream and honey with--tastes like candy! Celestial Seasonings has an exotic blend called Morning Thunder that is lovely with cream and a few drops of orange extract--and I suppose would be just as good in the late afternoon with a splash of orange liquer like Grand Marnier. And their Red Rooibos (sp?) is also very good with orange or vanilla extract added.

tea anytime! nothing like a refreshing tall glass of iced black tea with lemon slices floating amid the cracked ice after walking the dog at noon!

Ravyn

Raven, Hooray for your love of tea! You are so like me, I love a strong tea and cream and sugar! (can't help it was raised that way), but there are so so many new and exciting flavors out there as well as many new companies. I love trying new things too!

Yummy tall glass of hommemade iced tea!It says summer doesn't it?

I can't even say I have a fav. because I like so many things!
I do think I need to "hang out" w/you though the grand marnier sounds most excellent and calming!!
Great Idea!

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

How many of you take cream and sugar in your tea?

How many of you put other things in your tea? Honey, Jam, soy???

Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

I like black and green tea, and I usually drink them plain (or sometimes with some honey). Out of the 7 or 8 cups of tea I have every day, usually all but one or two will be plain.

I did grow up adding milk and sugar to black tea, but for some reason I now prefer it...well, "black." Maybe I just grew out of liking that sort of sweetness? I don't know.

These days I drink only green tea with nothing added.

I do also take my green tea plain. I think as we grow our tastes do change, when I was younger everything had 2 spoons of sugar in it! Yikes!

For my black tea I do use I pkg. sweetner and a drip of skim milk-
Tea is not as bitter as coffee, there I might use 1 sweetner and enough skim that it comes up to the top and lightens the color.


Mary Caliendo
Tea Editor

I drink tea in all sorts of manners. I enjoy Luzianne tea with milk and a wee bit of sugar; or without milk. I like Earl Gray, Breakfast Tea, Apple Cinnamon by Celestial. I love this stuff and drink it strong but I need to find out if cinnamon has side affects. I enjoy Twinings Revive and Unwind teas.