Turkish Delight

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2010-06-21 09:42:35 -0400

Tea-Guy

This tisane has become one of my favorite treats. It’s deffinitely not an every day tea.

David’s Tea recommends a 3-5 minute steep in boiling water. I’ve found a slightly longer steep in just less than boiling water works best. It seems to scorch the flavor out of the apple and pistachio bits.

Turkish Delight has a lighter flavor. The red peppercorns and pistachio’s add something special to the infusion.

What makes this tea for me is the aroma. It’s complex but not confusing. It’s light, bur noticeable.

I’d say, give it a shot. You just might like it.

195 °F / 90 °C

5 min 30 sec

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2010-10-28 12:10:52 -0400

August

I like this Tea. Have you tried David’s Toasted Walnut.“WOW”

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2010-10-19 16:52:15 -0400

heatherwassing 3 tasting notes

Well, this is fancy!
I went down to my local David’s Tea to buy Forever Nuts and walked away with this after smelling it in the massive canister.
I was intrigued by the peppercorns, but could not really taste them in my little cup.
The sugared pineapple, on the other hand, was like a sticky glove stroking my tongue.
A DELICIOUS sticky glove.
I’m a milk and sugar girl myself, and added it without thinking, but it certainly does NOT need the sugar I put in.
This is a tea to drink as a dessert or with little fresh scones.
Not working at the computer, as I was.
Tasty. I’m looking forward to giving it more attention next time.

200 °F / 93 °C

5 min 0 sec

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2011-03-08 22:14:52 -0500

Feeling pretty pretty this evening, and didn’t want to pull out any of the usual suspects, so I dug deep and found this hiding in my Summer Collection box. (It isn’t part of the Summer Collection, but I drank most of those teas down to nothing and the box makes for good storage.)
The tea itself smells like those containers of sugared dried fruit that I can eat in one sitting. (Yeah, we’re talking the enormous 2L Archer Farms container. I loves me some sugared dried fruit.) And in the BREWED tea, I usually don’t smell much of anything but the fruit, but tonight I’m getting an amazing push of marzipan! It’s so potent that I can feel the grainy, clutching texture of the almond paste in my empty mouth. It is really quite nice.
I’m worried I’m going to be disappointed by the flavour. I dumped in a little bit of whole milk (it’s so nice having a toddler around; you have a great excues to buy the 2L boxes of whole milk!), but no sugar. UNFORTUNATELY, while it was steeping I also dumped two freshly-made peanut crisp cookies in my mouth. Those cookies involve 1 cup of flour and 1.25 cups of brown sugar, so all of the sweetness of the tea might be spoiled by the sweetness already in my mouth. We’ll see. Fingers crossed.
Mmmmm, no. No, it’s good.
The lack of sugar lets me taste the actual TEA in this tea. It just tastes like a really excellent, lightly sweet black tea. The ingredients list just says “black tea”, so I don’t know what kind of black tea this is, but more disturbingly, I can’t find this tea on the David’s Tea website.
What the living will? WAS THIS TEA DISCONTINUED??
Well, nuts to soup. Now I’ll have to hoard it.

205 °F / 96 °C

5 min 0 sec

2010-11-13 23:48:56 -0500

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I took advice from earlier and used stright-up boiling water. My mug is almost too hot to touch, but I can certainly smell the peppercorns, pistachios and almonds this time around. I quite like it. Won’t be able to touch my lips to it for a few more minutes, but so far it’s even better than I remember.
The fruitiness hits you at the sides of the tongue, and the pepperiness kind of dances along the edges of the middle and launches spikes into your soft palate. It’s reeeeally nice. I get the nuttiness more as a kind of matte aftertaste than an actual taste, which is disappointing after the lovely smell.
I keep not choosing this tea whenever I make tea, and I don’t know why. It’s lovely! (And will hopefully stop me from falling asleep while I’m working late into the night!)

Boiling

4 min 45 sec

2011-06-17 14:16:27 -0400

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Gazel M.

I am absolutely gutted they discontinued this tea. Admittedly I didn’t taste any of the nuts promised in this tea, it strongly tasted tangy and apple-ey, but I still loved it. It didn’t taste like apple juice but it was definitely an apple-centric tea. I wish I bought a bag before they discontinued it.

2010-10-13 07:03:22 -0400

Michelle Butler Hallett

Complex. Steep carefully. Save this one for a proper sit-down; Turkish Delight is not to be drunk thoughtlessly while checking e-mail. A little sweetener (I use stevia) brings out the peppercorns, pistachios and especially the apples. The tea itself is a China black, I think, and quite smooth. Don’t oversteep, because this one might get bitter. I use water just off the boil because I’m afraid of scalding the fruit.

205 °F / 96 °C

4 min 0 sec

2010-05-18 20:34:35 -0400

torojapo

I actually did not like this tea. It looks nice – mix of black tea and LOTS of nuts -, but tastes like … I’m not sure if anyone agrees me but … ‘seaweed’…
If you put a lot of sugar and milk though, it tastes good. Though what does not taste good with sugar and milk?