Tea

Dragonfly tea's Dragonfly Organic Swirling Mist White Tea is the find of the year. Oddly, maybe. Generally, the ravens prefer Kenyan over Assam because it brews deeper orange and stronger, the crucial point. But the colour is more important if you don't add milk (or sugar).

We normally stick almost entirely to strong brewing organic tea bags from Clipper Teas (or for a real bounce, think very, strong espresso, their Bright Penny Tea). These we drink with no milk and hence no sugar. Tea with no milk just goes syrupy when you add sugar. Bright Penny sometimes gets bitter enough a splash of milk is required. However, we drink our Twinings' Chai (cheating we know) with milk and sugar to bring out the spice. Green tea normally passes us by, though we've made sorbet from it (also from Earl Grey, which we otherwise loathe (seemed to be the default tea when we were a student, so it was unacceptably posh--and tasted rotten too)). But the name and the rather wonderful, simple design of the dragonfly packaging had us intrigued. So we bought it. It's good. No bitterness, which usually puts us off. Tastes of more than dishwater (whether this is true on the third brewing is another matter--economical too, isn't it?). No metallic tang. Pleasant scent. As to the detox. and the balancing of the immune system, well who knows?

It was worth getting a cup and saucer out to drink this. It's not a slurp from a mug experience. We've had to set a whole new directory for tea-related bookmarks too.