drank Vanilla Assam by Custom
1112 tasting notes

I used a bowl that has cup demarcations to measure out my water for a pot of this tea because my measuring cup was otherwise engaged in making Russian Tea Cakes (and my extra measuring cup smashed to bits about two weeks ago – SUCH a butterfingers!).

When I went to pour the brewed tea, each cup was barely half full! I guess this was not the worst way to find out that this bowl’s marks are COMPLETELY off (imagine if I measured the liquids for baking in it!!). The resulting pot of tea was quite, quite strong! I put some extra milk into it, but it served to make it lukewarm, too milky, yet still too strong.

I want to throw these bowls through the window! but I will use them as prep bowls (especially since they were a gift from my sis in law)!

The Russian Tea Cakes were fantastic though :)

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec
Meghann M

At least the tea cakes were amazing! I’m a butterfingers with glass objects (especially wine glasses).

JacquelineM

Me too! My grandmother’s crystal is a shadow of its former self! I envision her in her grave, rolling, and saying “Oh no! Jacqueline broke ANOTHER one!”

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Meghann M

At least the tea cakes were amazing! I’m a butterfingers with glass objects (especially wine glasses).

JacquelineM

Me too! My grandmother’s crystal is a shadow of its former self! I envision her in her grave, rolling, and saying “Oh no! Jacqueline broke ANOTHER one!”

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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.

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

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