drank Vanilla Assam by Custom
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The slightly cooler weather had me craving this one! Good tea and amazing vanilla bean flavor. I love that slightly…smoky? earthy? flavor that comes from steeping the pod along with the vanilla bean.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec
Angrboda

When you do this, how do you prepare the vanilla? Do you just cut it up as it is, or do you open the pod and take the seeds out first and mix with the leaves and then cut up the rest?

JacquelineM

I cut up 1 pod with scissors into little slices (I didn’t scrape out the beans because the little vanilla pieces get steeped with the tea, so you are steeping beans and pod with the tea), and used about 3 oz of tea leaves. Leave in a tin about 3 weeks before enjoying :) I really love it. I’m going to try and add one to some Earl Grey next to make my own version of Earl Grey de la Creme!

Angrboda

Interesting. I think I’ll try this at some point. I don’t have anything that would suitable for mixing it into at the moment as stocks are woefully low on plain black that isn’t Lapsang Souchong (which isn’t really plain -plain anyway, is it), but I’ll definitely be keeping it in mind for another time.

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Angrboda

When you do this, how do you prepare the vanilla? Do you just cut it up as it is, or do you open the pod and take the seeds out first and mix with the leaves and then cut up the rest?

JacquelineM

I cut up 1 pod with scissors into little slices (I didn’t scrape out the beans because the little vanilla pieces get steeped with the tea, so you are steeping beans and pod with the tea), and used about 3 oz of tea leaves. Leave in a tin about 3 weeks before enjoying :) I really love it. I’m going to try and add one to some Earl Grey next to make my own version of Earl Grey de la Creme!

Angrboda

Interesting. I think I’ll try this at some point. I don’t have anything that would suitable for mixing it into at the moment as stocks are woefully low on plain black that isn’t Lapsang Souchong (which isn’t really plain -plain anyway, is it), but I’ll definitely be keeping it in mind for another time.

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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 attend a large public university doing post-bac work (my BA is in English). I’m interested in the liminal spaces between art and craft, the academic and the practical, the individual and community, and the old and the new. I’m currently exploring these ideas through the disciplines of education, literature, history, and psychology.

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.

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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

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