I am 99.9% sure that this sample came from White Antlers but it was on the center dividing line of my loose leaf sample box, so I could be wrong.
I really wanted to have a nice gong fu session last night. To be perfectly honest, it is because I told my daughter I would watch Avatar: The Last Airbender (animated) since she loved it and when I hear the music it makes me want tea.
My husband loves white tea and says it feels more thirst quenching than water to him, so I thought he would enjoy this.
I gave a really quick rinse and then a short first steep. As I would expect, my first impression is of sun-warmed hay.
The second through fifth steeps were our favorites, even though I oversteeped one and it was actually a little brisk. Otherwise, they were fruitier than I expected with a hint of floral and some minerality.
Steep six lost the the fruity notes we loved and went back to hay and mineral, so we stopped at steep seven.
Served with cinnamon toast! A most satisfying gong fu session.
Thank you, White Antlers, if this was from you! (I am pretty sure it was!)
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ashmanra, I don’t remember if I sent that one, but I enjoyed reading about your session; especially the cinnamon toast. : )
White Antlers – I discovered that a friend of mine makes cinnamon toast with white sugar and cinnamon! I always wondered why the grocery store had those bottles of cinnamon sugar because you could NOT make my mama’s cinnamon toast with that! Her cinnamon toast was bread with a healthy smear of butter, LOTS of brown sugar, a sprinkle of white sugar and cinnamon.I used Penzey’s Blend or Penzey’s Vietnamese Cinnamon! We love our cinnamon toast. Sometimes the brown sugar is so thick it cracks like a hard candy crust when you eat it. I have attempted to make it healthier with less sugar. Mama would give me side eye if she knew…
Wow, ashmanra! What a mind blower. I never thought to make cinnamon toast with brown sugar! My Nana always made it the ‘standard’ way-butter, white sugar, cinnamon. Dull but comforting to a kid. You’ve opened up a new culinary door for me. : )
Nana did use brown sugar on grapefruit halves but only as a treat since growing up, citrus was mostly something you got during the winter. Like tangerines in the toe of our Christmas stockings and gift crates or ruby grapefruit from Florida. I still try to eat seasonally ’cuz it tastes best but sometimes I am still amazed and chuffed that I can buy pineapple, mangoes, strawberries and grapefruit (among other things) all year round.
I still watch Avatar once in a while, especially the Uncle Iroh episodes.
Uncle Iroh is 99.9% of the reason my daughter wanted me to watch it!
ashmanra, I don’t remember if I sent that one, but I enjoyed reading about your session; especially the cinnamon toast. : )
White Antlers – I discovered that a friend of mine makes cinnamon toast with white sugar and cinnamon! I always wondered why the grocery store had those bottles of cinnamon sugar because you could NOT make my mama’s cinnamon toast with that! Her cinnamon toast was bread with a healthy smear of butter, LOTS of brown sugar, a sprinkle of white sugar and cinnamon.I used Penzey’s Blend or Penzey’s Vietnamese Cinnamon! We love our cinnamon toast. Sometimes the brown sugar is so thick it cracks like a hard candy crust when you eat it. I have attempted to make it healthier with less sugar. Mama would give me side eye if she knew…
Wow, ashmanra! What a mind blower. I never thought to make cinnamon toast with brown sugar! My Nana always made it the ‘standard’ way-butter, white sugar, cinnamon. Dull but comforting to a kid. You’ve opened up a new culinary door for me. : )
Nana did use brown sugar on grapefruit halves but only as a treat since growing up, citrus was mostly something you got during the winter. Like tangerines in the toe of our Christmas stockings and gift crates or ruby grapefruit from Florida. I still try to eat seasonally ’cuz it tastes best but sometimes I am still amazed and chuffed that I can buy pineapple, mangoes, strawberries and grapefruit (among other things) all year round.
I still watch Avatar once in a while, especially the Uncle Iroh episodes.
Uncle Iroh is 99.9% of the reason my daughter wanted me to watch it!