What’s the tea?

TEAS

Morning Zealong Black tea, brew as per instructions, or half-and-half Earl Grey and loose black English Breakfast tea, 5g brewed for 5 minutes with whole milk.

Cold Brew Zealong Black tea, 5g Zealong Black tea in 500ml filtered water. Leave in the fridge overnight and sip your face off during the day. Zealong Aromatic Oolong, brew as per instructions.

DAI’S SPECIAL WARM-UP CHAI

My wife went to India last year and came back telling me about the chai sellers over there. I have been searching for recipes, none were quite right so I did a mash-up. This is great for a weekend winter morning.

250ml water

125ml milk (I use Lewis Road Creamery silver top) Raw brown sugar

1 tbsp of black loose leaf tea

4 cardamom pods

1 dozen fennel seeds

1cm of fresh ginger

1 cinnamon stick

1 teaspoon raw honey (if you like it sweet-as)

Method

Put the water and milk in a pot and simmer, add the spices and keep simmering for 3 minutes. Bring to the lowest setting and add the tea, leave for 3 minutes stirring about once a minute. It should look like a spray-tanned dancer by this point. Pour into cups through a strainer and add raw honey if you want it sweeter.

Zealong Chamomile is the perfect drink about half an hour before bed.