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JacquelineM

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JacquelineM drank Vanilla Assam by Custom

I am completely, utterly, and delightfully shocked how good this tea is without any cream and just a half teaspoon of sugar! My coworkers brought in sweets for my birthday today (awwwwwww!) and I wanted to drink this tea with them, but didn’t have any milk! So, I said “Oh throw caution to the wind! You are now aged enough to be considered an eccentric old bat – do something wacky!!!”

I lowered the temperature and steep time and voilà! Delicious, vanilla tinged, excellent with pastry breakfast tea. Yay! I think this eccentric old bat time of life suits me!

2010-07-15 09:36:06 -0400

200 °F / 93 °C

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sophistre 2010-07-15 11:06:12 -0400

So many birthdays! I bet you’re going to have the most delicious baked things ever for your birthday, and I will be — as usual! — deeply, mournfully envious of your skills with the oven. I hope you have a great one!

Rabs 2010-07-15 11:22:10 -0400

I hope that you have an amazingly awesome birthday and a woder-filled year :D

JacquelineM 2010-07-15 11:24:16 -0400

Thank you! I’m pretty excited – we have reservations on sunday for a full afternoon tea at a 250 year old farmhouse which prepares most of the food portion of the meal with produce from their behind the restaurant garden! I hope to take pictures! I am taking off from the oven for my birthday, well mostly. I have this really nice steak that needs cooking tonight, but… ;)

AmazonV 2010-07-15 11:43:36 -0400

oooo yummy birthday treats :) i hope dinner sunday is amazing

JacquelineM 2010-07-15 16:09:55 -0400

Thanks AmazonV! I’ll let you know how sunday goes – it’s in Chalfont PA so not too far away from either of us! We then hope to go to the Mercer museum in Doylestown.

LadyLondonderry 2010-07-16 11:27:45 -0400

Belated happy birthday wishes! Hope you had a wonderful day filled with all your favorite things, including your top teas, of course!

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I love to cook, bake, read, paint, knit, do needlework, and garden. I need my coffee, but I LOVE my tea. I work at an Art School, and I am currently taking classes in order to become certified to teach.

I enjoy writing tasting notes, but have decided not to numerically rate teas as of 9/14/10. For an explanation, see my looooong tasting note about Mountain Malt from the Simple Leaf.

My favorites:
Chinese black teas
A good “milk and sugar” English style black
Earl Grey (classic, and in all variations!)
Vanilla teas (classic, and in all variations!)
Jasmine, Rose, Violet and other froofy, flowery teas!
An Occasional Oolong
Flavored Rooibos
Herbal Tisanes