Tea Recipes

Tea recipes can mean many different things to different people or even different things to the same person at different times and places. Tea is a breakfast wake-me-up drink, an afternoon refresher that can substitute for the 'coffee break,' a formal meal at a fancy hotel - the so-called 'high tea' - or even a party with the Queen.

The basic tea recipe is made by pouring hot water over dried leaves of the tea plant. All sorts of variations to this have evolved, from heating the teapot by whisking boiling water around in it prior to adding the leaves to the full Japanese tea ceremony ritual, a ritual so full of prescribed motions, activities, and formalisms as to be completely incomprehensible to the average westerner.

Tea can come in a variety of 'colors,' from the commom black tea in the West to the green tea that the Japanese and Chinese favor to white tea. The 'color' of the tea refers to how dried the leaf was allowed to become before the leaf was roasted. Black tea is from leaves that are completely dried, green tea from leaves only partly dried, and so on.

A United States invention becoming more popular worldwide is iced tea. This drink is popular in the summer months but is now similar to soft drinks as a year-round beverage suitable for any meal.

In the southern United States, you may be asked if you want sweetened or unsweetened tea. Elsewhere, iced tea is always unsweetened, providing you with the opportunity to add sugar or other sweetener at the table. The sweet tea of the south is made with sugar added during the tea-brewing process, with the result of more sugar being dissolved. Brew-sweetened iced tea tastes nothing like iced tea that has been sweetened at the table; it is both sweeter and has much more tea flavor.

Currently, there is heightened interest in evidence showing that there are significant health benefits for the habitual tea drinker. Green tea has drawn the most press and indeed seems to have many more health benefits than the other types of tea. All tea recipes are antioxidants, but green tea seems to possess impressive cancer protective properties as well.

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