DIY Tea Blending

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Going to an apothecary for a custom blend by a specialist is a true experience but going DIY is also totally doable. Poking around the kitchen, flavoring ideas included pretty easily accessible things such as toasted Japanese rice and almonds, dried lemon &/or orange peel, mint leaves, vanilla, and dried mango. Dried lavender, hibiscus flowers, bee balm, rose buds and mulberries are insanely aromatic and tasty too although a little harder to find. The result was an orange tea blend (see recipe here).

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Things to blend:
Nightcap (Zzzz)
Soothing chamomile and lavender
Fruity
Dried mango, passion fruit, mulberries, cherries, raspberry, cranberries, wolf berries, elderberry
Bright and sunny
Dried lemon and orange peel, bee balm (begamot) honeysuckle and peach blossoms
Smoky and deep
Toasted rice and coconut, almonds, chicory root, vanilla bean, rooibos (♥) sage
Floral
Rose buds and hips, hibiscus flowers, lotus flowers
Black and Green Teas
For more on this see my past post on Matcha and Asian tea ceremonies here
Image: mam for Gave That
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