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I love springtime! The beginning of the growing season, the plants coming alive, the birds rapturously serenading, the warmer breezes blowing... I always hold off on the first mowing of my lawn as I hate to destroy the beautiful sea of green, happy yellow dandelion flowers and the varying array of cheery violet flowers. In my garden beds I always like to grow borders of different violets. Their happy little petals put a spring in my step and add a new dimension to my culinary creations. I love to pick violet petals and candy them with sugar to make decorations on cakes and muffins.
When we were looking for new floral teas to offer I was thrilled to find this violet flavor. Added to our black tea blend, it produces a deep amber cup that is wonderfully fragrant. This tea tastes like springtime in a cup!
Ingredients: Black teas, natural and artificial flavor, and mallow blossoms.
Brew tea at 212º - steep for 3 minutes.
Violet iced tea: Put approximately ½ ounce (¼ cup) of loose Violet tea into a small container. Pour boiling water over the tea to cover. Let steep 5 minutes, strain out leaves into a ½ gallon (8 cup) container and add cold water to fill. Sweeten as desired. Stir and refrigerate.
If your iced tea gets cloudy, add a few drops of boiling water to the brew.
This was worth getting for the aromatic experience alone. It truly is heavenly. Brewed hot it has a delightful velvet silky quality to it and can be enjoyed unadulterated or for a uniquely rich treat with the addition of cream and sugar. I like to make lattes with this blend and for me creates a cloudlike, silky smooth violet dream experience like no other. Cold brew for an iced tea that will have you commenting to yourself how good it (and life) is.
J
James S.
Invoking an elegant Victorian Mood
I was very curious about Violet tea as I knew that some of my English aristocratic ancestors enjoyed it in the late 1800s. I have never been able to find it till now. Simpson and Vail's Violet Black tea is an exotic Victorian floral scented tea that is sure to please. I found the aroma intoxicating and the taste soothing. It pairs well with scones. Delicious all year around. Perfect for a candle lit evening binge of Penny Dreadful or Downton Abbey. Violet is also my February birth month floral. I also made a violet black latte with steamed vanilla almond milk. it was pure heaven. I really love S and V high quality and unique gourmet tea varieties!
M
MRH
Wonderful violet tea!
This tea is unique, classy, and a bit nostalgic to me (a good thing). The aroma is beautiful, like powdery, light, violets. The taste is slightly lighter than the aroma, and, (as best I can describe,) tastes of a subtle blend of sweet grass, violets, and a bare hint of cedar. That was on first taste of my first cup (which I'm on right now). When I closed my eyes to try to give more of a description for a review, I took another sip, and I was transported to my parents' bedroom in my childhood home, of all places, where mom kept her floral perfumes, dad kept his hand creme, where mom had a large cedar chest that housed many of her childhood memories. It's an odd description for a tea, I realize -- (to describe it tasting like things not usually consumed) -- but for me, it truly tastes like happy, secure-and-loving home memories in the country, where I grew up and spent time seeing, smelling, and sometimes even weeding (!) violets in our large yard.
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