Make Your Own Lady Grey Tea

The basic technique is easy enough.

Make your own lady grey tea. Everything you need to make your matcha. The complex sweet creamy and nutty nuances carry both teas beautifully and the lingering effect makes a classy brew and is the perfect treat. Leave to steep for 5 minutes.

If you like peppermint you may like chamomile a ginger tea you can even make one of your own by grating ginger into a diffuser and the like. What is Lady Grey tea. Put anything between 20 and 50 drops I use 30 for roughly 500g of tea on one piece of paper cover it up with a second piece and put it at the bottom of an airtight container.

Remove the tea bags add the sugar and stir to dissolve. Pour sugar in your tea to add sweetness. Now add a teaspoon of the blend to the pot to enable heat of the container to extract aroma of the tea leaves.

Although its hard to top an original our continuous pursuit. And Lady Grey which just gets the honey. Boil water at 212Fahrenheit and add to the pot and let it rest for about 5 minutes.

If youre going the punch bowl route consider freezing a large block of ice in a tupperware container the night before you plan to serve. Legend has it that the second Earl Grey was presented with this exquisite recipe by an envoy on his return from China. When ready to cook the tea bread preheat the oven to 180C gas mark 4.

Strain add milk and sweetener if desired. The primary difference between Lady Grey tea and Earl Grey is that Twinings blends oil of bergamot more lightly with lemon and orange peel. Boil one cup of fresh water.